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

George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had ...

If you've never been to Washington ... the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. A memorial to Virginia Declaration of Rights author George Mason, also ...

His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

The plane went down in a residential area near Cottoman Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard – just ... with an American Airlines midair over Washington, DC, taking the lives of 67 people.

To make the comparison complete, McKinley was backed by the titans of his day, including J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller.

The Learjet, carrying a pediatric patient and five others, crashed on Friday, killing all on board. On the ground, one person was killed and at least 19 others were injured, officials said ...