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Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...

The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...

2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

This event was originally scheduled for January but was rescheduled due to inclement weather in the Washington D.C. area...

Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...

Dodge City, Kansas, native Robert Rebein revisits his hometown and Kansas’ high plains often in a discussion of his third book,...

Education reform comes fraught with questions. How do we distinguish between exciting, new ideas and costly, ineffective fads? Where can policymakers...

For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...

As part of the country’s celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., Occidental College history professor Sharla...