Tag: History

President Franklin D. Roosevelt carves the turkey during the annual Thanksgiving dinner for polio patients at Warm Springs, Ga., with first lady Eleanor Roosevelt smiling beside him, Dec. 1, 1933.

Beltway Confidential

The woman who gave us Thanksgiving

J. Mark Powell · November 22, 2018 5:00 am

President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Washington Examiner · November 22, 2018 5:00 am

Chinese people line up to buy movie tickets at a theater in Beijing, China.

Beltway Confidential

In movies, China won’t be the villain because it doesn’t sell well

Erin Dunne · November 21, 2018 5:33 pm

Actress and model Donna Rice and Baltimore Sun White House Correspondent Mike Kelly arrive at the White House Correspondent's Dinner in Washington, D.C., April 21, 1988. Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart withdrew from the race in March, when rumors of an affair with Rice surfaced.

Donna Rice Hughes promises tell-all on Gary Hart ‘affair’

Paul Bedard · November 21, 2018 2:06 pm

President Richard Nixon tells a White House news conference, March 15, 1973, that he will not allow his legal counsel, John Dean, to testify on Capitol Hill in the Watergate investigation and challenges the Senate to test him in the Supreme Court.

Watergate convict John Dean: Nixon would tell Trump ‘he’s going too far’

Caitlin Yilek · November 21, 2018 2:08 am

Visitors view the statue of former President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial at night in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018.

Salena Zito: Four score and 155 years ago

Chris Lohr · November 19, 2018 7:00 pm

Former President Barack Obama shares a laugh with author Ron Chernow before presenting him with the 2015 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016.

White House media dinner headliner was a member of ‘Historians Against Trump’

David Mark · November 19, 2018 6:49 pm

In this March 30, 1981 file photo, former President Ronald Reagan, center, is shown being shoved into the president's limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel.

Hinckley release ripped as ‘illegal,’ probe of judge sought

Paul Bedard · November 18, 2018 1:19 pm

A Saint’s Life

Sophia Buono · November 18, 2018 9:52 am

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was forgotten once, but never again

Salena Zito · November 16, 2018 2:53 pm

First lady Melania Trump listens at the Family Online Safety Institute annual conference in Washington.

Melania Trump’s move against White House aide indicates limits of her influence

Robert Donachie · November 16, 2018 5:00 am

The original torch of the Statue of Liberty rests on a hydraulically stabilized transporter.

Statue of Liberty loses her torch

Anna Giaritelli · November 15, 2018 11:47 pm