Gwen’s Take: The end is in sight
Just about a month from now, Election Day will have come and gone. Americans, who appear not to have much taste for either major presidential nominee, will have made their choice. But truth to tell, any politician who is being…
When a secret president ran the country
All during September of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson became thinner, paler and ever more frail. Unfortunately, the president refused to listen to his body. He had too much important work to do.
April 14-15, 1865: The tragic final hours of Abraham Lincoln
The macabre details of Abraham Lincoln’s final hours were described in a report written by a 23-year-old Army captain named Charles A. Leale, a doctor who was at Ford's Theatre the night the president was assassinated.
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Gather ‘round to hear FDR’s first fireside chat
In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, we look back 82 years ago, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of 30 “fireside chats.” His radio addresses helped to comfort and build confidence among Americans during the height…
George Washington isn't the sexiest of American presidents in our public imagination, nor the most accessible. Perhaps we are all too weighed down by the "father of his country" image, the cherry tree myth, his powdered wig and bone-and-ivory (no,…
Over the past 64 years, from Harry Truman's first elected term through Barack Obama's first term, the economy has grown faster when Democrats are in the White House. How much of that is good policy versus good luck?…
