When Stimson joined FDR’s cabinet, he was 72 and already had an impressive record as a statesman. He had been President Teddy ...
The modern East Wing was constructed in 1942 under Franklin Delano Roosevelt to conceal an underground White House bomb ...
Robert H. Jackson, an American Supreme Court justice who thought of himself as "anything but a warrior," was drafted by FDR ...
At the 1943 and 1944 World Series, donations were collected for the National War Fund and the American Red Cross. Baseball ...
From the lantern shortage of 1943 to the recruitment of women codebreakers from the Seven Sisters, learn how World War II ...
Bouverie may have written the best single volume overview of the diplomatic wrangling among the Great Powers during World War II.
The White House’s many reconstruction and remodeling efforts since 1792 have drawn media, congressional and public ire. This ...
The most sweeping intervention before Trump’s was the Truman Reconstruction of 1948–1952, a project so ambitious that only ...
The clock change returned during World War II, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt implemented “War Time” in 1942. Still, it ...
President Franklin Roosevelt revived the practice during World War II before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 established a biannual time change similar to what we use today. Daylight saving time ends ...
President Trump on Friday dismissed reporting that said he would name the White House ballroom, which will replace the now ...