Queen Elizabeth II was asleep when Michael Fagan barged into her bedroom in 1982. It was the second time he had snuck into Buckingham Palace.
There was, indeed, tension between the two women during the 11 years Thatcher reigned as prime minister while Queen Elizabeth reigned as the sovereign.
Nearly 150 years before President Trump refused to acknowledge defeat, Texas Gov. Edmund J. Davis barricaded himself inside the governor’s office for days.
Her serious eating disorder was a symptom of her troubled relationship with Charles, but she said the queen believed it was the cause.
The life-saving polio vaccine was just as precious then as a coronavirus vaccine will be when it is approved for use in the coming months.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was less than three weeks ago from being inaugurated as the nation’s 32nd president when a would-be assassin opened fire on him in Miami.
Meet Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation and Herbert Hoover’s vice president from 1928 to 1932.
Jeffrey Rease has captured images of more than 100 veterans, ages 93 to 104, for his Portraits of Honor project. But the pandemic has made his effort even more challenging.
Names carved on an old wooden boat in a Navy warehouse tell a deadly sea story. With a new Navy museum coming, a giant storage site holds the thousands artifacts that make up the soul of the service.
While Hoover conceded to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932, he insisted that an economic recovery was underway and pressured FDR to abandon his New Deal promises to combat the Great Depression. It got ugly when the president-elect refused.
