As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.

Allyson Fairbanks, 60, of Briarwood, Queens, marred the otherwise peaceful Saturday afternoon demonstration outside the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building on Franklin Avenue in ...

Nineteen-twelve was when Theodore Roosevelt came out for women's suffrage and became the great champion of women's rights. And I think one of the least understood, but more important aspects, of ...

Theodore Roosevelt hated the idea of unelected judges stopping him and his allies in the Progressive movement from wielding government power as they saw fit. So Roosevelt advocated stripping the ...

In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. The landmark legislation ...

Whatever one feels about Trump, some historians say Presidencies like his and Roosevelt's can signal a new era.