Critics saw him as weak, but, in his single term in office, Carter had significant achievements in foreign affairs, the environmental, and energy policy.
What happened to the first English colonists in North America, who supposedly disappeared without a trace? Recent archaeological discoveries may have solved the riddle.
Now a popular state park, the unassuming geological feature along the Illinois River has served as the site of centuries of human habitation and discovery.
People who know nothing else about Chicago’s Great Conflagration have heard of Mrs. O’Leary and her famous cow. But the disaster's real origins are more complicated.
Recently declassified documents reveal that Alexander Haig and other White House staff actively worked to remove Richard Nixon — the president they worked for — from office.
In five appointments to the Supreme Court, Eisenhower added conservatives, moderates, and a liberal, believing the president and courts should represent all the American people.
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