The 19th-century cartoonist Thomas Nast made the elephant the Republican Party’s symbol, but today the hamster would be more ...

On Jan. 15, 2009, all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 escaped serious injury when pilot Chesley Sullenberger gently ...

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1981 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation from the Polish trade union Solidarity at the Vatican led by Lech Wałęsa.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - "This is the very first image of the modern-day Santa Claus that we know today," said Jack Stanley, looking at a giant illustration that was drawn during the Civil War by illustrator ...

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp. In October 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant invoked the Third Anti-KKK Enforcement Act, ...

Plus, the president was warned an attack on Iran might not topple the regime, the race to be Fed chair and RFK Jr. shifts ...

The 19th-century cartoonist Thomas Nast made the elephant the Republican Party’s symbol, but today the hamster would be more ...

I hope we’re done with the Peace Prize foolishness, but I got a laugh out of Sheneman’s take, and, while we don’t grade on quality of art so much as on quality of thought, he did a nice job of ...

Famed American political scientist and political cartoon historian Stephen Hess has passed away.Stephen Henry Hess April 20, ...