As freshmen, the now-graduating Adlai Stevenson High School Class of 2024 got off to a challenging start – beginning high school amid a global pandemic, in isolation and guided by national ...

There are few modern historical figures I admire more than Adlai E. Stevenson, the thoughtful and self-aware mid-century politician best known today for being a perennial presidential also-ran.

One of Adlai Stevenson`s running-mates and the president of the Illinois League of Women Voters criticized him Tuesday for comparing Gov. James Thompson to a woman who can`t say no. Stevenson has ...

My favorite pins have fascinating stories behind them. And few stories are as neat as the one about Adlai Stevenson's shoe. Stevenson had a problem connecting with voters in the 1952 campaign ...

U.S. News // 3 years ago Former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois dies at 90 Former U.S. Sen. Adlai Stevenson III of Illinois died at the age of 90 on Monday, his son said. You are in the ...

States’ cast of characters involved in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Fairman, who plays Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said the “Thirteen Days” team spent hours ...

Eisenhower faced Adlai Stevenson in 1956. And that’s not the only thing the two races have in common. As in the 2024 election, the incumbent president in 1956 had to deal with questions about ...

Adlai Stevenson III says his legendary family has political ties to the state's most famous son of all, Abraham Lincoln. "There might never have been a President Lincoln without Great Great ...

“I’m glad the general wasn’t hurt,” quipped his Democratic opponent, Adlai Stevenson. “I’ve been telling him for two months that nobody could stand on that platform.” This kind of ...

It was an epochal moment in the Cold War -- the point of comparison that will be on many people's minds as Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to convince the United Nations Security Council ...

By Robert D. McFadden Adlai E. Stevenson III, a scion of generations of Illinois Democrats, who shared the names and presidential ambitions of his father and great-grandfather but not their ...