The torrent of action on education and the reminiscence about it that pour from the White House is forceful evidence that its occupant recalls his own school days with singular relish and vividness.

These six presidential speeches are some that have most reverberated through the ages, and whose impacts are still felt today. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has researched ...

Lyndon Johnson was born hard-scrabbling poor in a ramshackle Texas farmhouse, but he soon learned the value of hard work, good luck, quick wits and bold maneuver. After 27 years of service in modestly ...