Summer 2024

In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California. 

President Johnson shocked the nation when he ended his bid for reelection in 1968. As early as 1964, Lady Bird had suggested that he might not want to run for a second term.

At a curious stone tower in Somerville, Massachusetts, panic in 1774 could have sparked a war seven months before Lexington and Concord entered the history books.

Though it was one of his most controversial actions as president, Richard Nixon's covert bombing of Cambodia was excluded from his impeachment articles, helping to shape how the Vietnam War has been remembered ever since.

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers' unique chemistry made them one of the most iconic duos of Hollywood's Golden Age.

Enormous crowds greeted the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution, during his visit to all 24 states nearly 40 years after the war ended.

Starting this August, events over 13 months will commemorate the Marquis de Lafayette’s triumphant return to America 50 years after the Revolution.

The famous journalist was arrested for stowing away on a hospital ship to cover the action on Normandy, writing a more compelling article than did her husband, Ernest Hemingway.