In 1960, the "Chairman of the Board" asked the first lady of the world if she had one word of encouragement for viewers of his "Frank Sinatra ABC Special." "That one word would be 'hope.'" said ...

Recently I had an opportunity to visit the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, a goal of mine for decades. From its extensive dinosaur collection to the Akeley Hall of African Mammals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 28, 1924, Roosevelt Elementary opened for the first day of class. Named for Theodore Roosevelt, the school was built near ...

From Manning’s to Blackwell to Welfare to Roosevelt, this 2.5 mile strip of New York City has gone by many names and served many purposes. Developed first as a family farm then a prison complex, ...

Teddy Roosevelt is usually treated like political Mount Rushmore come to life. He’s the cowboy president, the trustbuster, the conservation hero, the larger-than-life warrior who charged up San Juan ...

There are some trials that naturally lend themselves to dramatic recounting in books or movies. They're usually the same ones that get called "trials of the century." Cases, for example, involving ...

Theodore Roosevelt believed in “the strenuous life,” displaying boundless vigor, fortitude, and endurance throughout his career. From cattle ranching out West to fighting the Spanish with the Rough ...

Theodore Roosevelt was fascinated by the natural world. While in the Oval Office, he made it his mission to protect the country’s wildlife and natural landscapes, establishing 150 national forests, 51 ...

In May 2021, readers asked Snopes to look into a popular and colorful quotation, widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, in which the former first lady supposedly said the U.S. Marines have "the ...

In an 1887 speech, Theodore Roosevelt said of the bomb-throwing anarchists of his day, "There is but one answer to be made to the dynamite bomb and that can best be made by the Winchester rifle." What ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1933 presidential inauguration comes during the nation's worst economic crisis: the Great Depression. Banks have failed and savings accounts have been wiped out, so to ...