Neil deGrasse Tyson reflects on Lincoln’s contributions to science in a speech commemorating the Gettysburg Address.

PRESIDENTS
Some American presidents have their faces on currency, some get memorialized in films and miniseries and sketches. Then there are the others, whose all-but-forgotten names are unceremoniously attached to middle schools and parks across the country. The 19
After what should have been the happiest day of his life, a grieving Teddy turned his back on his burgeoning political career—and abandoned his newborn daughter.
What's revealed about some of America’s presidents in 'Under This Roof' is nothing next to the wild history of the building itself.
Some American presidents have their faces on currency, some get memorialized in film and literature. Then there are the others, whose all-but-forgotten names are unceremoniously attached to middle schools and parks across the country—or removed from major
Learn more about our ninth president, William Henry Harrison.
7. During his presidency, Herbert Hoover and his wife Lou would hold their private conversations in Mandarin to prevent their staff from listening in.
“For Washington,” writes Edward Larson in The Return of George Washington, “retirement made sense.”
A few things you might not know about these stately handwriting masters.
Presidents throw themed parties just like the rest of us—only with better costumes.
William Howard Taft left a much cooler trivia factoid than that bathtub story.
The Adamses set the tone for generations of American political celebrity pairs to come.
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, people in the U.S. eat more than 7 billion hot dogs. In 1939, that included the Roosevelts and their guests, the King and Queen of England.
Who wouldn't want to be called "Whaleboat" or "Grandma"?
Though some of the founding father’s rules are in need of a fresh coat of paint for modern life, these 12 are as appropriate as ever.
Vaughn Meader skyrocketed to stardom with his impersonation of John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s, even winning a Grammy. But it all came crashing down the day the President was assassinated.
Ten revealing true stories of how our nation’s greatest romantics in chief put a ring on it.