He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

A persistent myth about Donald Trump is that he had the Resolute Desk (made from the HMS Resolute and gifted to president ...

If you've never been to Washington ... the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. A memorial to Virginia Declaration of Rights author George Mason, also ...

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

The shift from Washington’s Birthday to Presidents' Day began in the late 1960s, when Congress proposed the Uniform Monday ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

22News was in Franklin County and some residents commented after hearing English was arrested in Washington, D.C. Monday. “I think it’s a scary world,” said Todd Cromack of South Hadley.