"We've entered into this especially scary time in the country where it feels the sort of norms and rhetoric and rules that would tamp down on violence have been lifted," says Matt Dallek, a political ...

Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy might beg to differ. Teddy Roosevelt, Gerald Ford and Ronald ...

The 96-foot-tall obelisk dedicated to the 25th president, assassinated in Buffalo in 1901, was extensively defaced sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning.

The CIA has declassified 54 documents about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, revealing his collaboration with the agency ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced on Thursday a grant program to support President Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes, the first concrete step toward realizing one of ...

The claim: Martin Luther King Jr. was 'killed by his doctor,' not a gunman. More than half a century after his death, conspiracy theories about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination ...

Paradoxically, a right-wing court decision helped bring universities back full circle to the economic approach to affirmative action backed by Martin Luther King Jr. and William O. Douglas.

President William McKinley, by contrast, had no connection to the peak or even the state, having never visited Alaska. ... or the approximately 800 honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ...

Owens was named the 43rd winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee’s annual scholarship in a ceremony Monday night. The scholarship is awarded to a Boston College junior who has shown ...

Martin Luther King Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama, May 9, 1963 AP Photo. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover believed that individuals like Stanley Levison, a close advisor to King, had significant ...

On the same day, the nation celebrated its annual tribute to the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, whose name and “dream” was invoked in Trump’s inaugural address.

Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters at the 1963 rally where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Trump's racism would have been anathema to King. AFP/Getty Images ...