President Obama defended his campaign’s tactics against Mitt Romney's work at the private equity firm Bain Capital at a NATO news conference Monday.

The President wrapped up a long weekend of international diplomacy with a closing news conference Monday at the NATO Summit. Earlier Monday, the NATO Secretary General also spoke to the...

A Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee holds a hearing on the shortage of foreign language speakers in the federal government. Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) chairs the hearing. 

Justice John Paul Stevens retired in 2010 after serving 35 years on the nation's highest court. Today, he addressed the annual meeting of the American Law Institute.

The Small Business Administration hosted a conference focusing on the impact made by small business owners and American entrepreneurs.

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More than 60 leaders of countries and organizations that work with NATO travelled to Chicago for a summit, which focuses heavily on military, humanitarian and financial aid in Afghanistan. President Obama delivered...

From the Milwaukee meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Columbia University history professor Eric Foner and University of Iowa history professor Linda Kerber discuss the 14th amendment to the...

Time Magazine Editor-at-Large David Von Drehle talks about 1862 and the 37th U.S. Congress.  While the Civil War was being fought, the 37th Congress passed the Homestead Act, the Morrill...

Why do we study first ladies? That was the question posed -- and answered -- at a conference titled, "America's First Ladies: An Enduring Vision." The conference was the second...

We tour the restored 1892 mansion of Captain Frederick Pabst in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The sea captain not only founded the world famous Pabst Brewery, he was a philanthropist and real...

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), who has been mentioned as a possible running mate with Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney, was the keynote speaker Saturday at the South Carolina Republican Party Silver Elephant fundraising...

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Ball State University history professor James Connolly looks at Immigration and the Roots of Pluralism in the United States. Ball State University is in Muncie, Indiana.

Historians and authors discuss ongoing legacies of the Civil War — the issues and controversies still being borne out today. Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,...

Leaders from the G8 nations met at Camp David this weekend for wide-ranging discussions on security and economic issues, including the Euro zone crisis and aid to the Middle East...

Author and historian Douglas Brinkley talks about his book "The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America." The book tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's contribution to the...

John Nagy talks about espionage during the American Revolution.  He's the author of "Invisible Ink: Spycraft of the American Revolution," and is a founding member of the American Revolution Round Table...

Mercury Seven astronaut Scott Carpenter – one of America’s first men in space – was interviewed as part of the NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project. Carpenter was the fourth...

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