The fate of democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1940.

Reflecting on the interment of Japanese Americans and what is happening today challenges us to see how fragile our civil liberties are.

Strategic resources have been central to the American-led global system for decades, as a historian explains. But US actions ...

By our count, 17 sitting presidents have come to Central Florida over the years starting with a very cranky Chester A. Arthur ...

This quote tells us how we need to conquer the internal paralysis of panic to unlock the courage needed to face external ...

1933: Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was struck by an assassin’s bullet presumably intended for President-elect Franklin D.

Franklin Roosevelt’s likeness has appeared on the U.S. dime since 1946. Roosevelt is featured on the dime to commemorate his support and influence in the founding of the National Foundation for ...

Not a lot of people can say they’ve met a U.S. president, but folks in Minot got pretty close today. Joe Wiegand, better ...

February 19 holds historical significance. It marks the birth of Copernicus and Shivaji Maharaj. The date saw the Donner Party rescue and Edison's phonograph patent. Kansas banned alcohol. US interned ...

The Village Voice revisits a 1957 article by four staffers on how they, all servicemen in 1945, reacted to Franklin Roosevelt's death.

Franklin Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, and Frank Lautenberg hold the record for the most appearances on a New Jersey general election ballot as a major party ...

Mr. Goldsmith, an assistant attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, is an author, with Bob Bauer, of a newsletter about presidential and executive power. Mr. Moyn is the author of the ...