One day after Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese bombers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt address a joint session of U.S. Congress to declare war on Japan. [...] ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Dec. 8, 1941, the United States declared war on Japan, officially entering World War II.

On Dec. 7, 1941, the headline of a story in the Arkansas Gazette proclaimed: "Main Street in Holiday Attire for Christmas." ...

The day after the attack, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress. This is what he said. Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and of the House of ...

Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for the presidency in 1904. Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for negotiating peace in the 1904-1905 war between Russia and Japan. (AP) An old Theodore ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued a dramatic call to the American people to protect and defend four universal human ideals in his State of the Union address on this day in history, Jan. 6, ...

One recent morning, I heard a commentator say that if more of us had stood up and spoken out, we would have suffered Donald Trump for fewer than nine years. Is that true? Edmund Burke said, “The only ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Spokane and delivered what the Spokane Daily Chronicle called the “opening gun” in the state’s 1920 presidential campaign. Roosevelt was the Democratic ...

An old Theodore Roosevelt quote has become an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. Pop star Miley Cyrus has it tattooed on her arm. Basketball legend LeBron James emblazons an adaptation of it (“Man in ...

On this day, Oct. 14, in 1912, while campaigning in Milwaukee, former President Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With the bullet still in his chest, Roosevelt delivered his ...