Sorkin rejects the idea, still bandied about in high school classes today, that Hoover caused the Great Depression. He argues ...

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...

Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands spent a month in the Berkshires with her daughter Juliana and granddaughters Irene and Beatrix, marking the first time a ...

Texas was the very last state in the nation to join the federal government in recognizing Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday ...

Intellectuals, academics, and most of the media slapped a halo over FDR to consecrate both his welfare state and his warring.

Meanwhile, the Trump White House is charting a new course to war, this time in the direction of Venezuela. Has the administration concluded that the rapid conquest of Venezuela could induce the kind ...

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The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. When Cedar Rapids began planning for its annual carnival in 1907, city officials decided a new pagoda ...

After President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected to a fourth term in the 1940s, Americans voted to put term limits in the Constitution Getty; Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Only one ...

Did you know that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t supposed to include job protections for women? Title VII—the section that covers job discrimination—included race, color, religion and national ...

Franklin Delano Peters, known to most as Frank, Del or Pete, passed away peacefully at the age of 92 on August 4, 2025 in Tallahassee, Florida where he has lived for over 65 years. He was born on ...

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has temporarily paused an order requiring the reinstatement of Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom President Donald Trump had fired in a test of the ...