Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on Jan. 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the only child of James and Sara ...

The bottom line is that Trump’s plummeting poll numbers give the Democrats strong head winds. This is their election to lose.

Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government's Cohen Building has been called "the Sistine Chapel of ...

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A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and ...

And then there’s Andrew Jackson, the two-term president from Tennessee known as “Old Hickory.” Like Trump, the seventh president was keen on expanding the power of the office and aggressively battled ...

The first year of the US president’s second term has been a whirlwind of activity. What does that mean for democracy?

Four months into his first term, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal established the Civilian Conservation Corps to ...

President Woodrow Wilson led the U.S. into the war in 1917 as an ally of the Western European nations. When he asked Congress for a declaration of war, Wilson asserted the value of like-minded allies: ...

Pioneering Modernist designer Dorothy Waugh gets her due as Poster House reunites her groundbreaking Great Depression-era NPS ...

In 1776, the United States of America as we know it declared independence. And from the 18th century to today, the country ...

(Vincent Alban | The New York Times) Nicolás Maduro, the ousted president of Venezuela, is escorted off a helicopter en route ...