The entire 2012 presidential election built state-by-state "live" in a gorgeous time-lapse video.

Documents riding with the ill-fated Donner Party yield new clues about Lincoln's life.

On Sunday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was attacked and injured during a political rally in Milan. The embattled politician sustained two broken teeth, a fractured nose and cuts after a member of the crowd hurled a scale model of Milan's Cathedral at the PM's face. Berlusconi was rushe...

The first president of the United States may not have been able to tell a lie, but he apparently had no problem dodging library fines. More than 220 years ago, George Washington walked out of the New York Society Library with two books -- "Law of Nations," a book about foreign relations, and a text...

Confidence in the U.S. government is at historical lows, true. But hey, our president isn't heading to prison, at least, not like in 1974.

Economic crises are nothing new. In fact, we're in one now! But what about the one 38 years ago?

A blog claiming so is debunked. But Lincoln did hold a patent for a device to lift boats over shoals in a river.

While debates are now a centerpiece of the modern presidential campaign, that wasn't always the case.