Lost Battalion
On October 2, 1918, Maj. Charles Whittlesey sent this message to his commander via a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami. Whittlesey’s troops, sometimes known as the Lost...
“Nearing the End of the Primaries”
Today candidates usually secure their party’s nomination during the primary season, and the nominating convention merely provides the party’s official stamp of...
Number 43 at 3
Seen here on horseback, this three-year-old would become the 43rd President of the United States on January 20, 2001. George W. Bush is the son of the 41st President...
Perhaps it should have been an elephant?
Teenager Lou Henry, later the wife of President Herbert Hoover, is shown sitting on a burro in this 1891 photograph taken in Acton, California. Lou met Herbert when...
President Franklin Roosevelt's funeral cortege
President Franklin Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia, on April 12, 1945. Here, members of the United States military escort the caisson bearing the body of...
R&R on the Maine coast
President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush are shown here at their summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1991. The house, at Walker Point, has been in the Bush family for...
Stella Apawo
Stella Apawo, a Ute Indian, examines an elk skin hung to dry in a barn on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah in this photograph from May 1951.