While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

Pioneer of disaster medicine tells an inspiring American story — and a powerful counter to fearful MAGA nonsense ...

Just within the last three months, we have experienced a national election, a former president’s state funeral, a ...

When President Jimmy Carter said he was coming to Oak Ridge in 1978 after announcing he planned to defer the Breeder Reactor ...

Amid the former presidents, members of Congress, lobbyists, princes and prime ministers at Jimmy Carter’s funeral sat a woman in a wheelchair. Behind her was the ventilator she needs to survive ...

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the ...

President Donald Trump picked the head of his personal security detail – who rushed to protect him during an assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania – to lead the Secret Service.

President Trump has vacillated from ceremonial and traditional to his extreme persona during the transition period and once ...

Flags were ordered to be displayed at half-staff for 30 days following Jimmy Carter’s Dec. 29 death. Despite the uncustomary move, Jason Carter said he understood it. “Others in my family may ...

The first memory of Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, resonates with the qualities of his well-lived life, which recently ended after 100 years. In the early recollection ...

lifting a 30-day flag-lowering order that had been in place following the death of former President Jimmy Carter on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Johnson's directive came just days after a similar ...

I thought to check on two other Presidents who survived assassination attempts. On October 14, 1912, shortly before the presidential election, Theodore Roosevelt was shot at a campaign rally.