Today in Music History for Dec. 21: In 1672, Benjamin Schmolck, German Lutheran clergyman and prolific hymn writer, was born. Though a busy pastor, he found time to pen 900 hymns, the best remembered ...

Though the two are often compared due to their hostility toward the press and their vengeful spirits, Stone's movie shows a ...

Federalists, the party that advocated more states' rights and less central government than desired by the Federalists. Most ...

The past is broader, more nuanced, and much more complex than it first appears. Even if you think you know everything there ...

An example of the eloquence: “Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a ...

Thirty-one North Korean commandos slipped past American and South Korean sentries on Jan. 17, 1968, cutting through the DMZ ...

At the same time, though, the media and entertainment industries were rapidly evolving, and the modern celebrity was born.

In 1964, the Pew Research Center reported, 77% of the country expressed trust in their government. Trust in government ...

A force is pulling on Donald Trump that is even more inexorable than the march of time: political mortality. Sometimes ...

The United States and the Soviet Union signed numerous arms control treaties to limit the scope, danger, and expense of their ...

North Vietnamese negotiators walked out of peace talks in Paris on Dec. 13, 1972. They had just rejected American proposals ...

For what would have been his 100th birthday, PEOPLE spoke to some of Sammy Davis Jr.'s former friends and colleagues ...