History in the News

By now it's settled on most people, including Democrats, that the loss of Alex Sink to David Jolly in Florida's 13th Congressional District was, in the words of the New York Times, 'devastating' to Democrats.

IT WAS BACK on Jan. 27, 1998, when Hillary Clinton first used the phrase "vast right-wing conspiracy" to describe the attacks on her husband.

The American Civil War Wax Museum in Gettysburg holds an auction featuring not only 95 wax figures, but all the props used to create the 52 year old vignettes, such as antique furniture, light fixtures, backdrops and scenery, old books, oil paintings and some store displays.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama is expected to steer clear of controversial issues such as human rights when she visits China this week but her trip could help advance a top item on her husband's foreign policy agenda: deepening Washington's ties with Beijing.

The court battle over the House's investigation of Operation Fast and Furious and the new showdown between the CIA and its Senate overseers have something in common: aggressive executive branch claims for secrecy.

A forgotten soldier of World War I will have a headstone installed on his previously unmarked grave in a commemorative service at the Ballarat New Cemetery.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is expected to be the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, believes it is a 'bedrock truth' that abortion restrictions hamper human progress, and any efforts to improve women's rights must begin with increased access to contraception and abortion.

Patrick Lee, on his way to his workout, is determined to lose 75 pounds. 'I don't feel like a victim,' he says.

Auctioneers bid off a period era hat during the American Civil War Wax Museum auction in Gettysburg on Saturday.

It's late 1944, and after landing on the French beaches at Normandy the Allied forces are pressing forward to Germany .

After decades as a largely behind-the-scenes Democratic power broker, Steven Grossman gained his first personal political victory in 2010 when he was elected Massachusetts treasurer.

As Wales celebrates Gethin Jenkins becoming a record cap holder today, his former youth rugby team mate Gareth Rogers takes a look back at how the boyfrom Beddau became a star.

Sensing a Republican tidal wave, President Bill Clinton worried in the summer of 1994 that Republicans were energized heading into the midterm elections while his Democratic base was deflated.

On Jan. 11, 1999 -- a little more than a week before Bill Clinton was set to deliver the last State of the Union Address of the 20th century -- he huddled in Oval Office with a group of advisers and worried.

The National Archives is releasing another 4,000 pages of documents from the Clinton White House, including previously unreleased records related to Vice President Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign and the... Sensing a Republican tidal wave, President Bill Clinton worried in the summer of 1994 that Republicans were energized heading into the ... (more)

A union report says thousands of workers at Los Angeles International Airport didn't know what to do when a gunman opened fire last year in a terminal.

Few occasions are notable enough to bring together former and sitting presidents, inaugurations, funerals, the opening of a presidential library.

The latest polls indicate a weak economy continues to drag down President Obama's job approval rating, but those hardly guarantee any big changes in Washington.

Twenty British soldiers are being laid to rest with full military honors in this sleepy northern French village, nearly a century after the First World War battle that claimed their lives.

Since World War II, the post-presidency years of most of our former chief executives have centered around the construction of their presidential libraries, writing their memoirs, burnishing their legacies through foundations, making vast amounts of money, and, in many ways, doing some social good.