In 1776, at the dawn of the American Revolution, the world was fighting smallpox just as it now is battling the coronavirus.
As the electoral college prepares to meet Monday, a look back at an effort by 'faithless electors' to install a southern segregationist as president instead of John F. Kennedy.
George Washington, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter used the preemptive pardon to seek national unity, not to protect family members, as President Trump is reported to be considering.
Before President Jimmy Carter lit the menorah outside the White House in 1979, the Secret Service hurried to a nearby store for a box of eight-inch long matches. And that’s how Allye Kranish, the mother of Washington Post reporter Michael Kranish, wound up playing a small role in a historic moment.
Dylan's most influential song was written in 10 minutes and set to the tune of a pre-Civil War spiritual.
Nearly a quarter-century before "The Queen’s Gambit" fueled a chess boom, the showdown between Kasparov and IBM’s computer had its own plot twists and huge audience.
In 1969, Congress almost approved a constitutional amendment to get rid of the electoral college. Instead the body will meet Dec. 14 to ratify Joe Biden’s election, despite President Trump’s refusal to concede and pressure to overturn the results.
The American Historical Association and other groups fear President Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and others in his inner circle may not preserve critical records
Boots, rifles, underwear and more must go! As Army’s museum system seeks to shed thousands of excess artifacts. Forty-seven Army museums with too much stuff plan for a massive culling.
Enslaved.org, the free database launched Tuesday, will allow anyone from academic historians to amateur family genealogists to search for individual enslaved people around the globe in one central online location.
