It was first proposed four days after King's 1968 assassination outside a Memphis motel, but took 15 years to become a ...

In the 1850s, as disunion loomed and tempers frayed, so many members of Congress carried weapons into the legislature that a senator said, “The only persons who don’t have a ...

Titled "Darwin among the Machines," the letter recently popped up again on social media thanks to Peter Wildeford of the ...

"President Trump will stand at the podium in a time of deep division and great challenge," David Adler writes in his weekly ...

Presidents of the United States have led and inspired our nation for centuries, especially in times of trouble. Those were the days.

Abraham Lincoln faced challenges that dwarf many or all of today’s crises, yet his leadership transcended the moment, leaving ...

Katherine Jane Chase, daughter of Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase, was a social and political rival of Mary Todd ...

If any woman was ever born to be the first lady of the United States, it was Kate. Glitteringly beautiful and dazzlingly ...