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 ...

The information contained in the memos won’t be confirmed until 2027. That’s when the FBI’s full audiotapes, photographs and film footage of King will be unsealed per a 1977 court order.

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

The confirmation process includes several rounds of investigation and review, beginning with the submission of a personal financial disclosure report and a background check. The nominee is then ...

Judy Garland, Wernher von Braun, Supreme Court justices, major politicians—there was nothing quite like Perle Mesta’s parties ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

On Monday, Joe Biden will no longer be president. After five decades in elective office, Biden will go home, unappreciated ...

Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

Harry Cooper is the founder of Sharkhunters International, a company that organizes tours to sites that were historically important to the Third Reich, such as the Wolf’s Lair, Hermann Goering’s house ...

Colon, the first African American commissioned into the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after it was desegregated in the 1940s, died ...

Truman was “give ‘em hell Harry,” which is not Joe Biden’s style. Yet his support of the American worker and resistance to ...