In the wake of a tumultuous presidential election, columnist Alma Rutgers reflects on how casting her first vote in 1964 ...

Andrew Johnson took office following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... His presidency was marred by the Vietnam War, ...

A documentary special provides an overview of the U.S. military across the centuries, mostly focusing on the American ...

Throughout American history, presidents have come from various economic backgrounds, but a few have entered the White House ...

It was the era of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Steven Seagal and Jean-Claude Van Damme. But times were changing. Politics were changing. And so did American action movies.

Early voting’s underway. My voting site is the Willye White Park fieldhouse, a mile north of where I live — a place I have ...

Van Buren worked his way up from New York state senator to governor and U.S. senator, before President Andrew Jackson named .

What message does it send when the world’s richest superpower, and the self-proclaimed ‘leader of the free world’, would opt for a man who has shown outward contempt for women, over a woman as leader?

He spent some time in Germany and was sent to Vietnam in 1970, and returned in 1971 ... Pimpleton said he had a ...

The work, now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, tells the story of two characters on the island—the last people ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

Ahead of the November 2024 U.S. presidential elections, a purported quote from Republican candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump went viral, in which he allegedly insulted soldiers who ...