Baron von Steuben, John F. Kennedy, and Eleanor Roosevelt. I've constantly found history painted as dull. But history is just chronicling people's lives, and that includes members of the LGBTQ+ ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else. He ...

Donald Trump was elected to his second term as president on Wednesday, Nov. 6, marking a rare moment for the United States. At 78, Trump has also made history as the oldest president ever elected. And ...

As Americans gear up to celebrate Presidents’ Day on Monday, Feb. 17, they will be participating in a tradition that has lasted nearly 150 years. Presidents’ Day traces its roots to an 1879 Act of ...

Want to take a deep dive into American history? Every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover (and a few before) has a library dedicated to his life and time in office. These presidential libraries are ...

Within the first 100 days of their presidencies, one forged a nation, another fought to hold it together, one fell to an assassin’s bullet and one turned to the sacred rite of baptism. Each shaped ...

White House china is more than tableware — it reflects presidential legacy, national identity and American craftsmanship.

For many Americans, Presidents Day is a welcome respite from work or school, an opportunity for a winter getaway, or simply a chance to take advantage of holiday sales. But this is a day with much ...

In the 19th century, relic hunters paid high prices for a piece of “Washingtonia” — slices of wood from the first president’s Mount Vernon home, letters, scraps of clothing and even snips of his hair.

More than one-third of billionaires who responded to Forbes' survey thought Lincoln was the best president in U.S. history. Billionaires poured hundreds of millions into Donald Trump’s presidential ...