Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore ...

In 1904, the U.S. citizen Ion Perdicaris was kidnapped by Ahmed al-Raisuni, leader of a tribal confederacy in Morocco.

Donald Trump is set to make history as only the second president to be inaugurated on MLK Day. Can you guess the first?

He was climbing in the Adirondack Mountains when he learned President McKinley had been shot. With McKinley’s death, Roosevelt ascended to the nation’s highest office, completing that term and ...

Though, in 1902, young Archibald "Archie" Roosevelt, the president's son, sneakily put a miniature tree in a closet of the White House that he decorated and proudly presented to his family.

The colossal sculpture on Mount Rushmore of four American presidents located in the Black Hills of South Dakota took nearly ...

Historian Douglas Brinkley said Carter "raised the bar" on what was expected of presidents after leaving the White House and ...

Roosevelt County honored its business leaders and community volunteers Saturday night. The annual Chamber of Commerce/Community Development Corp. banquet was originally set for Friday but rescheduled ...