Revisiting Dwight Eisenhower’s 1953 inauguration, from the vantage point of George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration.

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he ...

Out of 28 chapters, three concern the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers Case. The literature on this historical episode is sadly divided into two sides: pro-Hiss or pro-Chambers. These sides generally ...

1949: Thurman’s prayer at Truman’s inauguration clocked in at an unusual four minutes 1953: Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver spoke at the inauguration of Dwight David Eisenhower. Silver, who led an ...

NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

(JTA) — In 1949, as Harry S Truman prepared for the first presidential inauguration since the end of World War II and the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel, he decided to expand ...

President Harry Truman once said of his incoming successor, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, “He’ll sit here, and he’ll say, ‘Do this! Do that!’ And nothing will happen.” In an effort to show ...

You might want to consider a career in law. Roughly 60 percent of all U.S. presidents were lawyers before taking on the role ...

and President Truman’s Cold War, leadership than to big-government domestic policies, which no Congress elected between 1938 and 1958 supported. Instead, the real majority-former from 1950 to 1990 was ...

In "Call Me Madam," the 1953 movie version of Irving Berlin's hit musical, it was no secret that Ethel Merman was channeling a real person – a wealthy widow by the name of Perle Mesta, who, in ...

Truman (CVN 75) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. US Navy Photo For more than half of 2024, the view for the sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) or one of the ...

For the inaugural balls in 1953, Mrs. Eisenhower wore a blush pink silk gown that was embroidered with more than 2,000 rhinestones. When President Harry Truman, far right, took the oath of office ...