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

These tiny portraits keep America's iconic leaders at our fingertips, their contributions to history forever stamped on our collective memory.

A collection of Confederate generals, including Jefferson Davis, composed by the United States between 1861 and 1865, who were among those given pardons by President Andrew Johnson. (Library of ...

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 ...

President Trump has remained a divisive figure, prompting mass protests and receiving low approval ratings. Can he run again ...

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

Former First Lady Hillary Clinton officially ended the White House’s long tobacco tradition when she removed all ashtrays and ...

Then-Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York chats with inmates of the Veterans’ hospital at ... Gen. George Washington lobbied Congress to offer lifetime half-pay to officers who served until ...

By Trip Jennings Last week the Supreme Court gave American presidents broad immunity against criminal prosecution. It is the ...

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

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 ...