Alice Dunnigan, the First Black Woman Journalist to Get White House Press Credentials
Alice Dunnigan overcame racism, sexism, and other obstacles to make history as the first Black woman credentialed to cover the White House.
Alice Dunnigan overcame racism, sexism, and other obstacles to make history as the first Black woman credentialed to cover the White House.
Here’s the history behind the four-year limit, plus answers to all your other questions about presidential terms.
From important deadlines to common mistakes, here's what you need to know to make sure your vote gets counted in 2020.
Its political legacy began during the Iran hostage crisis, but other kinds of October surprises had been happening for decades.
House of Bust is raising funds on Kickstarter until November 13 to help launch their company crafting hand-sculpted busts of notable figures in the sciences, pop culture, and more.
States are changing their vote-by-mail rules for this year’s general election. Here's what you need to know.
Anyone running for federal office is required to endorse their own television ads. While it's supposed to make their political statements more honest, it might be having the opposite effect.
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Many states are letting residents vote by mail in this November’s presidential election—here’s how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln was up for reelection in 1864, and Republicans thought soldiers’ absentee ballots could help.
Election Day 2020 is less than two months away, and you can help things run smoothly (and probably get paid for it).
Old Navy is motivating its more than 50,000 employees to come out in force for Election Day on November 3.
How Theodore Roosevelt used his big stick diplomacy to make the most of an international incident in an election year. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
About half of the 40,000 documents in the Library of Congress's Lincoln Papers Collection are now available to search and read digitally online.
The Former Presidents Act, which was passed by Dwight Eisenhower in 1958—largely to help Harry Truman, who struggled financially after leaving the Oval Office—entitles ex-presidents to a handful of benefits.
Between 1907 and 1915, Coney Island's Rough Rider-themed roller coaster killed seven people in two separate incidents.
A monument in Washington D.C. depicts Abraham Lincoln standing tall beside a crouching Black man—here’s what Frederick Douglass had to say about it.
Plenty of musicians complain when a political candidate uses their work as part of a campaign event. How did they manage to play it in the first place?
In this special episode, we’re taking a look at the statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History: Its history, what the artists intended, and why it’s controversial today. Plus, we’ll revisit Roosevelt’s thinking on race and
Eugene Debs was a union leader, a Socialist, and a presidential candidate who ran for office from behind bars.
Find out more about Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president and champion for human rights.
Pearl Harbor prompted the White House to build a bomb shelter, and 9/11 might have prompted the construction of another.
Famed illusionist Harry Houdini might have been one of the only people to succeed in leaving Theodore Roosevelt truly dumbfounded.
The items from Woodrow Wilson’s century-old time capsule are on virtual display just in time for Memorial Day.