In 1932, one in four Americans was unemployed and the country was sinking deeper into the Great Depression. Franklin D. Roosevelt responded with the New Deal, a sweeping set of federal programs ...

Bob Sullivan was a Grand Rapids businessman and baseball team owner who helped plenty of legendary Major Leaguers get their starts.

Learn how New Deal Murals serve as a powerful reminder of artistic expression during challenging periods in American history.

Furniture from the White House theater has been "meticulously preserved," according to a letter sent to a commission ...

A New York Democrat, he spent 16 years in the House over two stretches, beginning in 1965, championing the health of the Hudson River and opposing the Vietnam War.

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From Sunday morning traditions to backyard barbecues, discover the US presidents who loved cooking and how their time in the ...

More than 20 men crowded into a hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton on South Broad Street in the winter of 1936. They faced a blackboard listing 90 names of college football players from around the country ...

From nail-biting elections to would-be assassinations, American history is full of presidential what-ifs. Here are 10 of the ...

Presidential polling from Gallup is coming to an end after nearly nine decades, in a major shift in how one of the country’s ...

Lindsey Stewart, a historian and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis, discussed her book "The Conjuring of America" in a virtual conversation hosted by the Library Speakers ...

Conservatives have often accused socialism of being a materialistic and spiritless philosophy. The most popular version of ...