Rutgers professor Louis Masur talked about how Thomas Jefferson and James Madison each viewed traveling. The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, hosted this event.

While the Presidency is today associated with wealth and fame, many early U.S. Presidents came from humble backgrounds and ...

The coroner’s office found Johnson died from severe scalding burns, combined with a health condition of high blood pressure ...

The crowning moment of the tour through The National Constitution Center-America's one and only museum devoted to the great ...

Personal tastes of presidents - as well as the demands of a growing federal government - has helped dictate changes over time to the White House.

Demolition of the White House’s East Wing, itself a source of multiple controversies for more than 200 years, was completed ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Thomas Jefferson owned more than 600 slaves over the course of his life resulting in a more complete picture of the third ...

On my first day as a 12-year-old White House junior host, I managed to spill a sterling silver bowl of spaghetti sauce in the ...

City commissioners have voted to find out who is buried at Evergreen and where they lie amid the 1,600 plots on 9 acres at ...

As demolition begins on the East Wing to make way for President Trump's $250 million ballroom, we look back at the ...