A rare letter signed by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover discussing the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's ...

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Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

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William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

An investigative journalist and expert on the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations said the feds’ secret files on ...

Trump is following in the footsteps of President Herbert Hoover, who signed a law raising tariffs on 20,000 imported goods which sparked retaliatory tariffs from American trading partners.

Johnson with 1,187 pardons, Dwight D. Eisenhower had 1,157, Herbert Hoover issued 1,198 and Theodore Roosevelt granted 1,099. Several presidents have shown remarkable restraint in exercising ...

The Oval Office was designed by architect Nathan C. Wyeth. A fire destroyed much of the West Wing in 1929, so President Herbert Hoover restored and expanded it in 1930. Among Hoover's upgrades was ...

Lou Henry Hoover, 1929 Lou Henry Hoover wore a velvet dress with a zig-zag pattern to Herbert Hoover's inauguration. In May 1929, she became the first first lady to appear in Vogue, Katherine A.S ...

Lou Henry Hoover wore a velvet dress with a zig-zag pattern to Herbert Hoover's inauguration. In May 1929, she became the first first lady to appear in Vogue, Katherine A.S. Sibley wrote in "A ...