The time has come. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is opening its new special exhibition on June 28 ...

If you don’t feel like braving the crowds on the National Mall for D.C.’s Independence Day extravaganza, the D.C. area offers ...

Did you ever notice how the weather sneaks into our everyday conversations—and even our history? U.S. Presidents, standing at ...

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was more tantalizing than illuminating when he recently said, regarding the nation’s ...

There were periods in the 1890s, and during the last 18 months of the First World War, when the U.S. was active in world affairs. But for the most part, from the American Revolution to December 1941, ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

President Trump’s renewed push to add his face to Mount Rushmore faces overwhelming obstacles. Geologists warn that the ...

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel has been shunned by presidents since Barack Obama after it was taken over by Chinese owners.

War. Did President Trump get America into one? On this episode of “The Opinions,” the columnists Carlos Lozada, Jamelle Bouie ...

From Abraham Lincoln's appetite for apples to Mark Twain’s odes to oysters, these are some of the surprising favourite foods ...

Throughout the Bush and Obama years, Congress repeatedly debated permanent repeal of the death tax, cutting the rates, and increasing the exemption. The Democrats’ 2010 tax law set a 35% top rate and ...