The National Archives has been in the news lately, not so much for what is in its collection, but for what was missing: some presidential records.

Western historian John Boessenecker has written a gem and has done his best to separate fact from legend in his evocative tome, “Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West’s Most ...

Movies about controversial periods in U.S. politics are usually fascinating, and there aren't many periods that fit this ...

This is the resignation letter of Richard Nixon, August 9th, 1974. Jay Bosanko: This is an incredibly important document. Before the Watergate scandal, records belonged to the presidents who created ...

Daniel J. Evans, a moderate Republican who dominated Washington state politics as a three-term governor and a U.S. senator ...

An amiable Korean-born graduate of Georgetown University, he was imprisoned after a second scandal involving the U.N.