Oklahoma’s Pearl Mesta wasn’t just a hostess—she was a power player in Washington, D.C. From grand parties with presidents to inspiring a Broadway musical, her influence was unmatched. Connie Cronley ...

Organizers of the region’s biannual Chapel of Four Chaplains ceremonies, honoring four religious leaders who sacrificed their ...

Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She passed ...

NEW YORK — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

President-elect Donald Trump (R) announced television commentator, author, and retired National Guard officer Pete Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense on November 12, 2024. This ...

In 1949, after Harry Truman was elected president ... Gordon says that, only when researching her new biography, did she realize what the hostess managed to accomplish behind the scenes.

Truman was “give ‘em hell Harry,” which is not Joe Biden’s ... He is the author of four books, most recently a biography of U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller, and welcomes comment at ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Vice President Kamala Harris, with second gentleman Doug Emhoff at right, signs the desk drawer in her ...

Even so, after Washington, few presidents took advantage of that opportunity until the middle of the twentieth century when President Harry Truman took ... of an important biography of the first ...

The beginning of the rift can be traced back to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Musk sparked controversy when he tweeted, “The coronavirus panic is dumb,” a statement that ...

The vice president noted that she has met every one of her predecessors who signed the desk with the exception of Presidents Eisenhower and Truman. As onlookers chanted, “MVP! MVP!” ...

Once Harris became the nominee, women voters surged behind her. But on Election Day, she won a smaller share of them than Biden did. This is how it fell apart. In early 2020, 20-year-old Sierra ...