The smash hit on Broadway and a Tony nominee for best play is Oh, Mary! which reduces the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War to bickering between failed boozy cabaret singer Mary Todd ...

Since President Ulysses S. Grant held the first official White House State Dinner 150 years ago, presidential hospitality has reflected the evolving tastes, traditions and diplomacy of the United ...

Theodore Roosevelt was a man who never stopped fighting. He grappled with his own physical deficiencies, railed against ...

Wilson suffered a serious stroke on his speaking tour which left him highly disabled, a fact that was successfully kept from the public by his physician and First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson ...

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) was a diplomat, activist, and the longest serving First Lady of the United States during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms as president from ...

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband's condition from the press and public.

As described in Rebecca Boggs Roberts’ book “Untold Power: The Fascinating and Complex Legacy of Edith Wilson,” members of Congress were frustrated when they were prevented from seeing the ...

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband’s condition from the press and public.