In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The landmark legislation ...

Armored vehicles have come a long way since President Roosevelt rode in Al Capone's old car at the beginning of World War II.

Weighing nearly 300 pounds and almost as tall as he was wide, former college and NFL lineman Ernest Cuneo was virtually ...

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

There’s an interesting story behind how Roosevelt ended up on the dime, too. The process was put into motion not long after FDR died in 1945, early in his fourth term as president. According to ...

Praised as one of the greatest public works project in American history, the Interstate Highway System is about to turn 70.

The U.S. government repeatedly tried to deport the midcentury labor leader over his alleged ties to the Communist Party.

Still, most of the nation did not realize Franklin Roosevelt was a cripple and could not walk, nor did most Americans know FDR was dying. The President’s death came as a profound shock to most ...

The death of his beautiful young wife almost crushed Theodore ... When young Alice was found to be smoking in the White House, President Roosevelt thundered he would not have his eldest daughter ...