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On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., President Franklin D. Roosevelt sat at his desk in the ...

At exactly 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981, television did something it had never done before. A grainy ...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, known to the world as Jackie Kennedy, was more than just the First Lady of ...

When Ford Motor Company sold the first unit of its new Model A in July 1927, it was ...

On July 20, 1969, millions of people around the world watched as the United States became the first ...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass by the Lakota ...

On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain—a bold and divisive act that would ...

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, at the head of approximately ...

In June of 1652, the Massachusetts Bay Colony took an extraordinary step that would shape the course of ...

A storm of steel and determination arose over the coast of Normandy on June 6, 1944. What unfolded ...

A wartime law offered surveyed public land to eligible claimants who could meet its conditions. What made that ...

Elaine Lan Chao has been one of the most influential public servants in modern American history, with a ...