He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

If you've never been to Washington ... the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. A memorial to Virginia Declaration of Rights author George Mason, also ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor Sara Georgini A new ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

Yet Washington was aware that politics is perception — including the perception of his personal finances. As the national ...

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

Insurrection. It’s a word I didn’t expect to hear at the campaign launch for Peter George, the independent candidate running in the Tasmanian seat of Franklin. But that’s how George ...

22News was in Franklin County and some residents commented after hearing English was arrested in Washington, D.C. Monday. “I think it’s a scary world,” said Todd Cromack of South Hadley.

Armed Massachusetts man arrested at Capitol after threatening to kill Trump cabinet members, police say 22News was in Franklin County and some residents commented after hearing English was arrested in ...