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 ...

He refused to cash in on his office after leaving it and understood that character mattered as much as policy. | Opinion ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Florida governor in the early 1900s saw potential for the Everglades land but only if it was drained of its water.

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 ...

In the United States there had been urgent secret discussion of a new and vastly powerful 'super-bomb', but apparently the first President Truman heard of it was early in October 1949. Some of the Los ...

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 ...