It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

I was inconsolable that day in May of 1967. A 5-year-old me boarded the yellow school bus as I had done all year, but the ...

Without the decision to build a dam, Oklahoma would not have the vast arms of Lake Eufaula to swim, boat and fish in more than 75 years later.

Dick Durbin greets people inside the Lyndon B. Johnson Room at the Capitol on Feb. 12, during a meeting with the ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965, did my five-year-old self truly comprehend the personal milestone that I would someday reach?

California receives $2.4 billion in federal Title I money for low-income schools, about $1.3 billion for special education ...

In 1977, millions of American tempers flared against the treaty giving Panama control of the canal that bisects its country. A bemused senator said: My state’s residents are of different ...

Although political strategists have historically considered Florida a swing state in presidential elections, it has consistently voted Republican since 1948.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965, did my five-year-old self truly comprehend the ...

A new vision for the Kennedy Center could undo years of reconsidering what American classical music sounds like.

These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war classics to ...