Nancy Leftenant-Colon, who became the first Black nurse in the U.S. Army Air Corps after President Harry S. Truman desegregated it in 1948 ... according to her biography on file with Tuskegee Airmen ...

NEW YORK -- William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S.

On Monday, Joe Biden will no longer be president. After five decades in elective office, Biden will go home, unappreciated ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

Truman was “give ‘em hell Harry,” which is not Joe Biden ... He is the author of four books, most recently a biography of U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller, and welcomes comment at ...

In 1949, after Harry Truman was elected president, he rewarded Mesta by naming her envoy to Luxembourg. That's how "Madame Mesta ... only when researching her new biography, did she realize ...

Judy Garland, Wernher von Braun, Supreme Court justices, major politicians—there was nothing quite like Perle Mesta’s parties ...

In her mid-20th-century heyday, Perle Mesta inspired Irving Berlin’s ... Harry S. Truman’s 1949 inaugural festivities. Meryl Gordon’s sympathetic and involving new biography, “The ...

He was reelected to a second term in 1964, and to a third term in 1966, according to his bio on the NGA website ... Created by President Harry S. Truman in 1945 as the Medal of Freedom, the ...

She was initially assigned to Lowell Hospital in Massachusetts, where she tended to soldiers wounded during the conflict, according to her biography ... when President Harry S. Truman signed ...