While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on this day in 1911. His legacy still shapes American politics, historians say, and he's a ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

This month, as they have for almost 40 years, millions of Americans will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was indisputably one of the most iconic ...

President John F. Kennedy’s shocking assassination stopped the world on November 22, 1963. A botched investigation continues ...

John M. Bridgeland, former director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and Alan Khazei, co-founder of the education ...

One of Long Island’s most significant presidential landmarks is Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, the childhood home of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, which served as his home from ...

Every president gets to decorate the Oval Office to their liking — but sometimes, they keep the decor of their predecessor.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941 ... a move that led the NAACP to call it a "token" action. But it was Johnson, elevated to the presidency by the assassination of ...

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933 The shade of Eleanor Roosevelt's inaugural gown became known as "Eleanor Blue" at President Franklin D ... his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson, took the oath of office ...

Franklin Pierce ... event in Washington, D.C. history at 1.8 million people. 10. The first woman to inaugurate a president was Judge Sarah Hughes, who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air ...

Theodore Roosevelt — who was sworn in at the ... McKinley was assassinated — did not use any book at all. Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office aboard Air Force One after John F.