Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

Capturing historically iconic Cape Cod houses and their stories of a distant and not-so-distant past, the Shoreline ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan's life after an assassination ...

John McCaa recalls a moment in his early career when he could not report on a political assassination in Spain. In our own ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located on the Fort Detrick-Forest Glen Annex in Silver Spring, easily accessible for Maryland residents and visitors to the DC metro area. Admission is ...

According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...

Lot 308 is a mortgage deed dated December 20, 1957 co-signed by Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband, the playwright Arthur Mille ...

For Confederate Army scout with Powhatan ties, life after the Civil War was devoted to spreading the word of God—and to ...

Trump was voted the worst president in U.S. history by 154 historians who participated in the 2024 Presidential Greatness ...