Theodore Roosevelt was a complex figure—a progressive who abhorred radicalism, a conservationist who loved hunting.

Mothers of Massive Resistance is about the story of grassroots resistance to racial equality undertaken by white women. They are at the center of the history of white supremacist politics in the South ...

In 1960, the "Chairman of the Board" asked the first lady of the world if she had one word of encouragement for viewers of his "Frank Sinatra ABC Special." "That one word would be 'hope.'" said ...

Rob Goodman is a former House and Senate speechwriter and the co-author of Rome’s Last Citizen. In any case, it should have been true: that when Joe Kennedy’s bomber exploded in midair, the officer in ...

PARIS Curtis Roosevelt, who lived in the White House as a child when his grandfather was president and worked for two decades at the United Nations, has died at 86. The oldest grandchild of Franklin D ...

Alhontess (speech bubble) // iStock via Getty Images Plus; Topical Press Agency/Getty Images (Roosevelt) Theodore Roosevelt had a way with words. Over his lifetime, the eminently quotable president ...

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Theodore Roosevelt, almost four years removed from the White House and running for a third term as president, survived a gunshot wound to the chest during an assassination attempt in Milwaukee on this ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended Prohibition, pulled the United States out of the Great Depression, and bolstered Allied Forces during World War II. He also suffered from paralysis, which was ...

In 1867, Theodore Roosevelt began what he called the Roosevelt Museum of Natural History. It consisted of 12 specimens that had been carefully preserved and laid out — in his bedroom. Teddy was 8 ...

In March 2003, Iraq was invaded by a U.S.-led coalition of forces mobilized by the George W. Bush administration on the grounds that Saddam Hussein's regime posed an imminent threat to world peace and ...

Richard Von Gammon, a football casualty of 1897 Illustration: the Atlanta Constitution On an apple-crisp fall day in 1897, an 18-year-old University of Georgia fullback named Richard Von Gammon ...