Locked away for 50 years, the secret correspondence reveals a steamy relationship between the future president and his mistress
A National Zoo exhibition featuring the animal, long tied to Smithsonian history, opens Saturday
An illustrator adapted Rockwell’s The Runaway based on images of contemporary police
From the burning of Washington to the siege of Baltimore, what happened in those late summer days?
The creators of "Will & Grace" and others donated objects related to gay history
The historic rivalry between the South's polished general and the North's rough and rugged soldier is the subject of a new show at the Portrait Gallery
Before the Civil War, the cabinet position was considered a stepping stone to the Chief Executive; now, not so much
Remembering the Great War and how we're still living through its legacy today
America's home front was the site of interment, deportation, and vast property seizure
As long as there have been home runs and strike outs, ballplayers, even some Yankees, have sported mustaches, beards and side burns
The debacle of the Eisenhower memorial is only the most recent entry in a grand D.C. tradition of fraught monuments
Objects belonging to the anti-slavery advocate spent a century collecting dust in an attic. Now they're on their way to the African-American history museum
The National Postal Museum's "Behind the Badge" exhibit explores the history and legacy of the United States Postal Inspection Service
The year was 1864, and the South was all but beaten, yet Jubal Early's ragged army had D.C. within its grasp
Fifty years later, a dive into what it took to make the historic legislation law
Fifty years after the civil rights summer of 1964, renowned travel writer Paul Theroux chronicles the living memory of an overlooked America
The star-spangled war confirmed independence for the United States. But for Great Britain, it was a betrayal
Today’s obsession with posting material to Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter has a very American history
Here are the 11 endangered sites—including the prison where Solomon Northup was held—on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's 2014 list
The director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture joins the discussion around "The Case for Reparations"
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