Speakers stand before a podium, wearing a traditional graduation cap and robe, and offer graduates life lessons and inspirational words as they enter the next phase of life. But today, speaking at a ...

President Trump traveled to Connecticut on Wednesday to deliver remarks at the 145th Commencement ceremony of the U.S. Coast ...

Today, we leave with more than a degree, we leave with the ability to decide what kind of impact we want to have on the ...

A 2003 essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. about the American flag and how criticism of American is patriotic.

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats were a series of approximately 30 evening radio addresses delivered between 1933 and ...

Tree clearing began in the section of FDR Park in South Philadelphia that is slated to become multi-use fields, a playground and basketball courts. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) A lawsuit filed by 11 South ...

An accomplished and maybe-famous person is probably giving a similar address right now to a sea of graduation caps spread ...

Teddy Roosevelt emphasized during a 1903 visit to the University of Wyoming that higher education is a cornerstone of ...

A stack of folded-up speech notes — and intervention from a medical team in Chicago — helped save President Theodore Roosevelt’s life, but not his effort to win a third term, 114 years ago.

Charles Lindbergh was a global icon, an American patriot, and a man of unimpeachable courage. For that reason, Lindbergh was ...

The second world war is in its fifth year. Millions are dead. Much of Europe lies in ruins. The fate of the war now hangs on a single stretch of water. In th ...

A place where history was not only recorded but made continues to draw visitors for a deeper look at one of the nation’s most influential presidencies at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library ...