harry truman

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Hershel W. “Woody” Williams, the last remaining Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, died Wednesday. He was 98. Williams’ f...

WASHINGTON — Is there anything more depressing than a cheerful liberal? The question is prompted by one such, historian David Goldfield, who has writt...

FLAG DAY: The Continental Congress first approved “Stars and Stripes” as our nation’s theme 240 years ago, on June 14, 1777. Since that time, the flag...

WASHINGTON — The dyspeptic Henry Adams was not nice but not wrong when he described what now is named the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjace...

WASHINGTON — When told that the New England transcendentalist Margaret Fuller had grandly declared "I accept the universe," the Scottish philosopher T...