The Holocaust Refugee Shelter at Fort Ontario was a place of safety and hope during a dark moment in history,” said the bill’s chief Senate sponsor, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Beverly Byron, part of a powerful and durable Western Maryland Democratic family and one of only 11 women elected to ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

Four local Black men made history as members of the Montford Point Marines, the first Black unit to serve in the Marine Corps ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt contributed the largest percentage ... However, the biggest contributor to the national debt under FDR was World War II. President George W. Bush added about ...