History in the News

As legend has it, Paul Sperry - Dartmouth man, World War I naval officer - was sailing his cutter Sirocco on a cold day in 1935 when he nearly slipped on the wet deck and killed himself.

When President Barack Obama meets Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a summit next week, they will be battling negative undercurrents that could undermine their message that Asia's most important security alliance is firm.

The City of Amsterdam collected more than $10 million from Holocaust survivors who were charged ground lease fees for periods they spent in hiding or in concentration camps, researchers said.

The National Archives is scheduled to release about 7,500 pages of documents on Friday from former President Bill Clinton's administration.

The U.S. Green Building Council and Hanley Wood announced that the 2016 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo will move from San Diego to Los Angeles.

Former president Jimmy Carter, shown here speaking at The Washington Post earlier this month, now opposes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Arion Press & Grabhorn Institute invite you to a talk by historian Adam Hochschild, The War Within the War: An Unknown Story of World War I, tonight, April 16, 2014, refreshments at 5:00 p.m. and the talk is at 6:00 p.m. 1802 Hays Street, The Presidio, San Francisco.

President Obama on Friday formally nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Department of Health and Human Services following the botched resignation of Kathleen Sebelius.

At the Greenwood School, Cameron Ferachi found his place to fit in, made academic progress and discovered the courage to stand in front an audience and recite The Gettysburg Address.

"It no longer matters who sits in the White House," former Goldman Sachs managing director Nomi Prins writes in her new book " All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power ."

Former President Bill Clinton is returning in June to Ohio, a state he won twice to win the House House, to howl for Democrats and their underdog candidate for governor, Ed FitzGerald.

Even though Hillary Clinton has yet to announce whether she will run for president or not in 2016, two authors who chronicled her years at State are already set to write about the next chapter in the former first lady's political life.

Appearing on Fox & Friends on Monday, National Review columnist John Fund was asked for his take on President Barack Obama attacking voter identification as a means of limiting the ability of minority Americans to vote during a Friday appearance at a National Action Network event.

Rand Paul has attacked Hillary Clinton for having a husband who took advantage of a staffer.

Last week President Obama and former Presidents George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton came together at a Civil Rights Summit held at the LBJ library to mark the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and to celebrate the man who was instrumental in bringing it about.

Clinton's doctor let the secret out in New York Times that sometimes the former president cheats on his healthy diet.

Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and Vera Brittain are some of the literary figures whose names have been shortlisted for new streets in Royston.

On a trip to Moscow early in her tenure as secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton played the role of international saleswoman, pressing Russian government officials to sign a multibillion-dollar deal to buy dozens of aircraft from Boeing.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigerian Finance Minister, recipient of the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award from Synergos, with the organization's founder and chair, Peggy Dulany Photo: Christine Butler/Synergos The Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was honoured Wednesday with the prestigious ... (more)

Photographer Peter Macdiarmid has created a series of then and now composite photos that show images of the European theater of World War I overlaid on the European locales as they appear today.