Columbia University’s Incite Institute offers more than 450 perspectives from the Obama White House and beyond.

As America turns 250 years old in 2026, CBS News Chicago is looking back at two presidents who called Illinois home.

A new set of oral history interviews documents how Barack Obama and his advisers missed the shifting mood of the country that ...

UChicago scholars contribute interviews of those who knew Barack and Michelle Obama during their time in Chicago ...

Craig Reinarman, professor of sociology, is teaching at UC-DC this quarter. On January 20, he was among the throngs who witnessed the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The next day, he sent this ...

February 9, 2008 - With nearly two-thirds of the vote, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois won Nebraska’s first Democratic caucus ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 27, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated for president of the United States at the Democratic National Convention. Obama ...

It may not be the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but when historians write the definitive story of the first half of the 21st century in the U.S., a single weekend in the spring of 2011 ...