Petula Dvorak

Trump is freezing the United States’ foreign aid agency, which grew from our relief efforts over the world’s wars and crises.

Created in 1867, the short-lived office was mired in the ongoing American strife after the Civil War.

A swamp with a busy road going right through the middle, Washington’s airport was called “a disgrace.”

President Woodrow Wilson presided over the segregation of government workers, putting Black people behind screens and in cages in 1913.

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

Greenbelt was designed in 1935 as a community created, built, populated and even furnished entirely by the federal government. Now the FBI is set to move in.

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.