It has been 114 years since New Mexico became a U.S. state with President William Howard Taft signing the Land of Enchantment ...

William Howard Taft was an accomplished man — to date, he is still is the only person in the history of the United States to serve as both president and chief justice. But pop history has not been ...

Forget the political alliances and policy decisions made in the Oval Office; within the walls of the White House, some of the most fascinating bits of history were being cooked up in the kitchen.

Opening Day welcomes the new spring baseball season each year, a uniquely American tradition steeped in history and fanfare. And on this day in history, April 14, 1910, President William Howard Taft ...

Perhaps the most lasting moment of William Howard Taft’s U.S. presidency took place in his bathtub. It certainly wasn't any of his political activities — even his official White House biography calls ...

EXCLUSIVE: The White House and the Supreme Court have a complicated relationship these days. When President Biden took office, he launched a commission on reorganizing the court, responding to calls ...

Elon Musk and his son board Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Fla., on April 13, 2025. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images There are two individuals intrinsic to any presidential effort to restructure ...

President Taft (left). 1915 mugshot of Carl Panzram (alias at the time Jeff Baldwin) at the Oregon State Penitentiary (right). Carl Panzram had always been “a bad egg,” as he put it. Born in 1891, he ...

You probably know President William Howard Taft for one thing and one thing only, but there's actually a good deal of interesting trivia about the 27th president. He was the first (and thus far, only) ...

The closures will begin on the evening of Dec. 29 and will last until the afternoon of Jan. 4, officials said in a news ...