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The architects and designers of the 9/11 memorials in New York City and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon outside of Washington, D.C., talked about their design process and the …

The Congressional Black Caucus convened in 1971 to address the legislative concerns of African Americans. To mark its 50th anniversary, Representatives James Clyburn (D-SC) and Joyce Beatty …

Fred Gray is a longtime civil rights attorney from Montgomery, Alabama. Some of his notable clients included Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and other participants of the mid-1950's Mon…

Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum curator Donald Holloway used archival photographs and film to talk about the 38th president, who took office on August 9, 1974, after President Nixon’s res…

Katherine Jellison of Ohio University explained that scholars, and even the general public, tend to narrowly categorize first ladies. She showed that they are more complicated than that, usi…

Warren Finch, director of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station, Texas, talked about the complex entering a new phase since the deaths of the 41st president…

Michelle Obama moved into the White House 45 years after President Lyndon B. Johnson shepherded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. Seven of her predecessors had moved in to the executive…

The Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, has been renovated with new exhibits telling the 33rd president’s life story. Director Kurt Graham talked with …

Paul Sparrow looked at the personal and political partnership between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt that captivated the nation and transformed how the federal government interacted with the…