Presidential signings once meant something. Not all of them, of course; some were as thin and inert as the paper upon which ...

Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s, has died at the age of 104. She died earlier this month at a nursing ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

Trump's more than 100 (and counting) executive orders on Day One will prove to be more entertaining than effective.

In 1948, she became the first Black woman in the regular Army Nurse Corps. She later served in Vietnam with the Air Force.

Over the past nine decades, only three U.S. presidents have issued executive orders on their first day in office. On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to implement several policy ...

The order set the stage for efforts to repeal and replace the ACA by allowing agencies to relax some of its requirements where legally possible. Truman signed the most executive orders during his ...