Martin Luther King Jr., a reverend and civil-rights activist, was assassinated at 39. However, he inspired several movements ...

Love anything enough and it will reveal its secrets to you.” So said George Washington Carver, one of the world’s greatest of scientists, yet most modest of men. Glenn Clark, ...

Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

Writing a biography ... notably Washington hostess Gwen Cafritz and Eleanor Roosevelt — disdained her, until they, too, were won over. A family friend introduced Perle to George Mesta, a ...

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Miss America pageant will take place in Orlando on January 5. This year's contestants include a national figure skater and a trauma nurse.

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

Judy Garland, Wernher von Braun, Supreme Court justices, major politicians—there was nothing quite like Perle Mesta’s parties ...

How Donald Trump's presidential inauguration unfolded as he was sworn in as the 47th President to succeed Joe Biden.

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20 will mark the 60th presidential swearing-in ceremony in United States history.