Perle Mesta’s affable personality and compulsive party-throwing are remembered in Meryl Gordon’s new biography, “The Woman ...

The little-known former Georgia governor tied for 12th in early polling, but he had the right plan to win the 1976 ...

Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the United States in January 1977 at age 52. On his first full day in ...

One of Washington’s 12 Democratic electors uses a feather pen to fill out the documents to cast their Electoral College vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Harris lost to Republican President ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

George Washington University, a private institution, has been offering online bachelor's degree programs since before 2000-2001. All of the online classes are recorded and archived so students can ...

George Washington was Commanding General of the American Continental Army during their War of Independence (1776-1781). He was President of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and from 1789 to 1796 ...

Susannah George is The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, based in Dubai, where she leads coverage of the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf and their neighbor, Iran. She previously spent ...

He arranged for the freeing of his slaves and the payment of life pensions to the elderly among them – the last of which would be made in 1833, more than thirty years after his death – and devoted his ...

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In other early verses, she luxuriated in the memory of childhood afternoons listening ... of Black-owned bookshops such as Drum and Spear in Washington, and in 1971 she rose to national prominence ...

While my grandma and I now rewatch “Sleepless in Seattle” every year instead, and my grandpa chooses not to participate, nothing will ever replace the childhood joy of watching the cartoon snowman ...