From the White House to Dallas City Hall, here are some of the leaders who have shaped local politics throughout the years.

These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — To celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary, you have a rare chance to see American history told through the papers that built it at Austin’s Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.

The Barack Obama Presidential Library in Chicago is now open to the public - Sipa US/Alamy America is the land of the weird and wonderful. But there are few places I’ve visited on my stateside travels ...

Whenever historian Geoffrey Ward visits the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum to do research, he finds himself caught up in the spirit of FDR himself, the sense of landed ...

A Buddhist’s monk protest in South Vietnam shocked the world. The Venerable Thich Quang Duc Monument at the intersection where Thich Quang Duc performed his self-immolation in Ho Chi Min City ...

It is the early 2000s and you are the president of the United States, and in a bunker-like room plastered with video monitors, you must decide whether to invade Iraq. Grim faces appear on the monitors ...

Why are we asking for donations? Why are we asking for donations? This site is free thanks to our community of supporters. Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for ...

Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?

As our country looks to celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, one of the best ways to learn is through presidential libraries. The High Plains has seven institutions that can make great trips to ...