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This road-tripping, hilarious, heart-wrenching, family-style adventure story is almost completely true, says author Pedro Martín. The Mexikid author,...

The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...

What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...

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

In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...

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...

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...

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

Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—...

Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him....