The war required training that learned from past mistakes to help save lives. Today they are called IEDs or improvised explosive devices, but then they were called booby traps. In 1944, the fight in ...

Trump has signed more executive orders at this point in a term than any other modern president, focusing mostly on cuts to ...

Officials at the White House had to be notified of Roosevelt’s passing and Vice President Harry Truman had to be sworn into office as the new President of the United States. The presidential train had ...

Armored vehicles have come a long way since President Roosevelt rode in Al Capone's old car at the beginning of World War II.

Previous presidents exercised impoundment. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower impounded funds when they deemed it appropriate.

Coal Valley School District. The board met at Black Box at the Bartlett Performing Arts Center, Moline High School.

In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

Since 1803, when Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle of judicial review, presidents have watched key initiatives die at the feet of the nation’s highest judges.

President Roosevelt pursued a third term by promising African American voters Black flying units in the military. Roosevelt ...

"Two Cadillac convertibles — dubbed the “Queen Mary” and “Queen Elizabeth” — served Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower. First used in 1938, the 21.5-foot, 7,660-pound ...