AP Photo President Harry Truman, right and Maj. Gen. E. E. MacMorland stand at attention during a twenty-one gun salute in ...

Presidents Day was established to honor America’s first president, George Washington, but it’s since morphed into a celebration for all presidents.

On January 11, 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first sitting president to travel on official business by airplane. He flew to a WWII strategy meeting with Winston Churchill at Casablanca in ...

While the Kennedys and Trumps of the world were born to wealthy families with large estates, other presidents had far more ...

The United States Navy is investigating the collision of its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, with a Panamanian-flagged merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea near the entrance of ...

The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

The strong impact of African Americans in the U.S. military is evident throughout history. Colorado is home to a celebrated ...

The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today ... see the same mistake being repeated today. President Harry Truman speaks in 1945. Two years later, Truman issued an ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. President Harry S. Truman holds up the Chicago Daily Tribune’s famously erroneous headline on Nov. 3, 1948, at St. Louis ...

Harry S. Truman on Dec. 6, 1947 ... what would become known as the "River of Grass" was seen in the early 1900s as "wasteland," according to the Florida State Archives. Stoneman Douglas was ...

Prince Harry's visa status in the US faces scrutiny under the Trump administration. Judge Carl J. Nichols has ordered court hearings over allegations that Harry may have misrepresented his past ...