The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

While the first and second inaugurations of President George Washington were held outside ... The birthplace and childhood home of President Coolidge have since been preserved as a Vermont State ...

When coach Joe McKeown traveled to Philadelphia in December for the Hawk Classic at Saint Joseph’s University, it wasn’t just ...

Laura and Robert Dunne are parting ways with their beloved 18th-century home — a timber-frame house built in the 1770s by a soldier who fought under George Washington during the American Revolution.

After his death, his childhood home in Diamond, Missouri, was named as the George Washington Carver National Monument, the first time this happened for an African American. Carver was also ...

The Snedens Landing house was built in 1988 and renovated by the current owners after they bought it in 2021. Panettiere ...

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Washington, made headlines this week after she angered ...

Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...

Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...

Perle moved to Pittsburgh after marrying George Mesta, a steel magnate ... She spent that fortune to Washington, D.C., making herself famous, says Marie Ridder, a conservationist and retired ...