In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota for a summer away from Washington, D.C.

“Coolidge Has Raccoon; Probably Won’t Eat It,” one contemporary Boston Herald headline blared. The post Why did Calvin Coolidge pardon a raccoon for Thanksgiving — and keep it as a pet ...

President Biden delivered the commencement address last weekend at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington from which many students have gone on to great success.

This first centennial of the Calvin Coolidge presidency is as good a time as any to revisit an old-fashioned American idea: that families living in the White House kept pets because they liked ...

If Americans know anything at all about Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president No. 30, they know he had a pet raccoon. The Coolidge White House (1923-1929) has not been enshrined in high school curricula ...

For Black History Month, the cinema is hosting a six-film retrospective shining a spotlight on groundbreaking performances from throughout the years, from Denzel Washington in "Glory" to Whoopi ...

I have had the privilege to attend the Coolidge Centennial Celebration in Plymouth Notch. The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site holds 29 buildings on 216 acres in the mountains of Vermont.

A decade after his unsuccessful campaign for the White House, Michael Dukakis began to research the career of Calvin Coolidge — and was amazed by what he discovered.

Rebecca the raccoon arrived at the White House in November 1926, just in time for President Calvin Coolidge's Thanksgiving dinner.