A new on-line gallop through the life and heartache of President Theodore Roosevelt, courtesy of the Library of Congress.
America's bloodiest military battle started 100 years ago this month. The Meuse-Argonne campaign of World War I lasted six weeks and claimed 27,000 lives.
The USS Tampa was sunk by a German sub 100 years ago this month, killing all 130 on board and making it the Navy's worst combat loss of World War I.
The $130 million project near the Lincoln Memorial was plagued by funding problems.
The World War I monument stood tall for nearly a century. Now the Supreme Court could decide whether it has to come down.
A flood levee across 17th Street NW in the District may be deployed for first time.
The skeletons of the two Manassas soldiers were discovered in a “limb pit,” where the amputated limbs of wounded soldiers were buried.
Her first of many rescues occurred when she was 15 and she rowed out to save two boys whose boat had capsized, according to newspaper accounts.
The deluges of summer, some deadly and destructive, take a brief time out.