On a February day in 1960, the air in downtown Spokane carried a sharp chill as John F. Kennedy stood before a crowd of Inland Northwest residents. He was a presidential candidate then, in a city that ...

For all the national tumult of the late 1960s—wars, assassinations, riots--easily WSB’s most momentous year of the decade was 1962. In June, 106 Atlantans died when an Air France jet crashed on ...

The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in ...

HAMPTON, Va. — January 29, 1960, was a day of celebration in the City of Hampton. According to reporting at the time from The Daily Press, Mayor George C. Bentley wielded a curved, silver-hilted ...

For many aging baby boomers and their parents, this country’s golden age does not lie shrouded in a mythic past but, rather, exists within living memory. When Donald J. Trump spoke of making America ...

Littering the newspaper’s fine print throughout the 1960s were notices of Trustee’s Sales of property. The decade was bracketed by recessions at its beginning and end. In between, times were still ...

In September 1957 a series of earthquakes shook the tiny Azorean island of Faial followed by numerous eruptions of a volcano centered on Capelinhos, a small cape extending off the island’s western ...

This article is part of a series by White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs Office that will delve into the history of the Trinity Site Test, which marked its 80th anniversary on July 16, and the ...