History in the News

'My son saved his attacker's life': Father who brutally beat teen he caught raping his son, 11, reveals it was only his boy's pleas that saved the pedophile from death as he says his family refuse to hide Bill Clinton 'has a busty blond mistress nicknamed "Energizer" by his Secret Service detail who work to hide the woman from Hillary' Body of ... (more)

In October 1998 in a bid to gain the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli team led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to blackmail President Bill Clinton with tapes of Clinton and then-intern Monica Lewinsky.

Clifford Abraham Neelands fought for Canada in World War I and went missing in action in 1918, five years before his nephew was born.

Ann Hunnewell and her central Florida police officer husband knelt in the living room of a fellow officer's home, with pillow cases as makeshift hoods over their heads.

"I was serving the most important people in the world" - the president of the United States and other world leaders - "but we saw them in a very different light from everyone else because it was a nonpolitical situation," said John Moeller, who worked as a White House chef for 13 years.

Former President Bill Clinton says that Hillary Clinton, his wife and the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, needs time to not only decide whether she will run, but what she would bring to the race if she did.

But for the eight years beginning January 20, 1993, history, in the form of the Clinton White House, seemed to skip the repetition and go straight for farce.

One's record is fair game in politics. Bob Smith is regularly reminded of once leaving the Republican Party and, at another time, endorsing Democrat John Kerry for President.

The Weekly Standard founder, publisher and editor Bill Kristol says Arkansas is "almost" a must-win for Republicans if they are to take back the U.S. Senate.

The image of Mary O'Melia is now in the possession of The American Civil War Museum in Richmond.

As the nation continues its ongoing 150th anniversary remembrance of the American Civil War, our area has had many reasons to pause and reflect on the contributions and sacrifices made by local troops who helped preserve the Union.

The story follows Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes and their carousing friends from the nightclubs of 1920s Paris to the bull fights in Spain.

Just when you think the Obama administration can't sink any lower, someone puts in a basement.

Former President Bill Clinton takes a question Saturday on a visit to a mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, an area hit by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

People light candles at the Dutch embassy for the victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine, in Kiev July 17, 2014.

An unknown photographer caught Al Stone, portraying General Robert E. Lee, with a tear in his eye.

Mary O'Melia is seen in an undated photo provided by the American Civil War Museum.

Mary O'Melia left Ireland for America as a young widow with three children before she was hired as housekeeper at the White House of the Confederacy.

Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1mqyQKv On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb in the city of Sarajevo.

William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library Supervising Archivist Rhonda Young makes previously unreleased documents from Bill Clinton's Presidency available to the public on Friday shortly after the expiration of the 12 year time period of the Presidential Restrictions Act expired.