From grand estates to humble farmhouses, presidential landmarks offer a tangible link to the people who’ve shaped American ...

Emma Bushee's sons were serving on six continents. At home, she waited for their letters — and tried to pray them home safe.

Those Were the Days,” co-written by the late Charles Strouse, revolutionized the form — while slyly mocking Archie Bunker’s ...

In July 1945, after Roosevelt’s death, Vannevar Bush, director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, replied with his report, Science, the Endless Frontier, laying out the ...

Treasure Island brims with rich history, from its creation from the Bay shoals in 1937 to its dazzling Expo, its wartime past and more.

Canadian author Charlotte Gray spent her pandemic lockdown examining the lives of two American mothers previously disregarded ...

Learn about the many ways diplomat, activist, and 2023 American Women Quarters honoree Eleanor Roosevelt made American ...

President Trump is testing principle of "checks and balances" like rarely before, signing executive orders, closing or ...

Mohammadnour Alghananim, Brendan Andros, Lizbet Angel-Ojeda, Prem Bedi, Carter Bernhard, Adam Birchwood, Adrianna Bonilla, Jackson Booth, Isabella Breen, Alexandra ...

"There's a (Works Projects Administration) plaque on there." For context, WPA was a New Deal initiative from the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidential administration. Grimes said the new elementary ...

he cheated death for a second time later in the war when he was shot several times by a German soldier. Fragments of the bullets remained lodged in his chest. His family confirmed to the BBC that he ...

Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt forged a war-winning alliance ... But Harry Truman, the man who replaced the president after his death in April 1945, was nothing like as sentimental ...