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Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...

Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....

When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...

As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...

Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...

James N. Giglio describes John F. Kennedy as “the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of o...

Jeffrey Frank discusses his new book Ike and Dick, which examines the 20-year political and private rela...

A century after his inauguration, President Woodrow Wilson remains among the most influential figures of the 20th century—and o...