Last week I took a look a the military service from the American Revolution to the Civil War of the people elected to the ...

One day over 30 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt strode into a Fifth Avenue (N.Y.) tailor shop to compliment a young coatmaker, now a Pittsfield ...

Presidential libraries in the United States today follow the same principle: They become monuments to the former presidents, ...

This Time We Leave the Country Stripped on Blocks,” Adam Chandler’s 99% Perspiration: A New Working History of the American ...

Historian Lindsay Chervinsky’s new book, “Making the Presidency,” is a profile of John Adams. But it’s also an instructive examination of how the presidency has evolved to become what it is today.

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...