A 73-year-old former postal worker had his car rigged as a bomb in 1960 but was foiled when a traffic officer nabbed him on ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

In repeating the 35-word presidential oath, Donald Trump will fulfill every inaugural requirement of the Constitution, which ...

We soon learned: Under foreign affairs, the governments of Egypt and Libya were overthrown. Syria used chemical weapons against its own citizens, making a mockery of Obama’s own “red line.” Under Joe ...

An 11th-century warlord who fought for both Christian and Muslim rulers left behind a reputation that expanded into myth.

1964 marked the government’s arrival to the non-smoking movement. A year after the top doctor’s announcement, American smokers arrived in stores to find their cigarette boxes stamped with a mandatory ...

Choices for mains include New England stuffed lobster (JFK, 1961); beef tenderloin (G.W. Bush, 2001); or hickory-grilled bison (Obama, 2013). President-elect Donald Trump makes two menu appearances ...

Deep in the Canadian soul — deeper than the cultural clichés of the reverence for hockey, the devotion to poutines, and the ...

Kamala Harris is set Monday to do what nearly every vice president before her has done — certify the incoming president’s ...

Former president John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, changed American politics—and culture, for that matter—forever. Though their years in the White House were tragically ...

The second was the appearance and reading of the great America/English poet T.S. Eliot in Boston on December 11, 1961. The third was the overwhelming reception John F. Kennedy received when he ...

In 1912, New Mexico joined the United States as the 47th state. In 1914, the day after the Ford Motor Co. announced the "$5 ...