In the White House's history, there are few days as infamous as the one in which a revelrous crowd nearly demolished the ...

See the Great Depression in Indy, the end of Prohibition and more through the eyes of our photographers of the 1930s.

Most recent aircraft carriers have been named for US presidents—but this is not a hard and fast rule, and many other ...

Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November every year. Pass a drumstick, along with these Turkey Day facts.

Since the 12th Amendment separated out the votes for president and vice president only two sitting vice presidents have been elected president: Martin Van Buren (1836) and George H.W. Bush (1988).

On Nov. 28, 2018, former President George H.W. Bush died at his home in Houston, six months after the passing of his wife, ...

The Capitol's reflective counterpart is finally being put out of its misery after infrastructure issues, mold and more ...

The 13-room Manhattan duplex, on the market for the first time in 100 years, was later the longtime home of prominent patron of the arts Irene Boyd Roosevelt Aitken.

For good measure, Louis donated his $47,000 boxing paycheck to the military. He was “a loyal American,” Johnny Smith and ...

The order to slaughter defenseless survivors in the water constitutes a blatant war crime in furtherance of Washington’s ...

On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of ...