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Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald On Jan. 26, 1998, President Bill Clinton stood at a White House podium and told the world, 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman, [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Lady Diana Spencer was petrified. It was 1980, and she was about to go on a third date with her future husband. The date was a [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Shannon McAdoo, a former bookkeeper in Erie, Pa., spends her evenings hunting for ancestors on genealogy websites. 'You can find the most amazing things about your [...]

Byline: Brittany Shammas and Michael S. Rosenwald There is grief, but no memories. There are photos, but none together. There were no high-fives on the softball field, no fist bumps [...]

Byline: Peter Hermann and Michael S. Rosenwald A Towson University student was among three people wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a gathering on the campus north of Baltimore, [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Twenty years ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, Washington attorney Kenneth Feinberg was in Philadelphia teaching a law school class on mediating class-action lawsuits. Feinberg, [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald It was early April 1975 in Saigon, the final days of the South Vietnamese collapse in a ruinous war, and crying women were handing orphaned babies [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Prince Harry caused a sensation last week when he revealed that the pressures of royal life had driven him to drink and do drugs. 'I was [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald WASHINGTON - In 2007, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called his colleagues Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye to a specially secured room in the Capitol where [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald WASHINGTON - Any day now, millions of cicadas will commence their every-17-year trek from the earth's innards to Washington's lawns, trees and the slurping tongues of [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The first thing to know about royal funerals is that they have code names. The second thing to know is that the code names typically reference [...]

Byline: John Woodrow Cox and Michael S. Rosenwald For a moment, as the video played on his cellphone, Charles Welch thought he was about to watch a White police officer [...]

Byline: John Woodrow Cox and Michael S. Rosenwald For a moment, as the video played on his cellphone, Charles Welch thought he was about to watch a White police officer [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Looking back, their love story was both royal and implausible. She was the daughter of King George VI. He was the nephew of a deposed king [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In early December of 1928, when Ernest Hemingway was 29 years old and already a famous writer, his father Clarence, beset by years of anxiety and [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In 1939, when Jerry Parr was 9 years old, his father took him to the movies to see 'Code of the Secret Service.' 'A cone of [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the annals of scholarly research, it is possible that nobody in history has been written about more than Adolf Hitler. By 1975, 30 years after [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In late 1995, Princess Diana was out for revenge. Her husband, Prince Charles, was cheating on her - an affair known to the entire world. Royal [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald WASHINGTON - Lady Bird Johnson became first lady aboard Air Force One while President John F. Kennedy's blood was still drying on her predecessor's pink Chanel [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the summer of 1964, not long after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, a Ku Klux Klan member named Clarence Brandenburg [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The night before Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009, he quietly excused himself from dinner with his family at Blair House to receive a military briefing about [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald WASHINGTON - Joe Biden's first stop Wednesday morning before becoming president was a Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, one of the most [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald As a mob of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol last week, Eric Foner, one of the nation's premiere Civil War historians, watched in horror. 'I was watching [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The annual New Year's eve ball drop celebration in Times Square actually began with dynamite. It was 1904. Adolph Ochs, the owner of the New York [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald So, just to recap, the following events occurred in 2020: - The coronavirus pandemic swept the globe, killing more than 1.7 million people (so far), including [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Armand Dávila, a 49-year-old digital marketing strategist, takes extraordinary measures to avoid needles, even the mere sight of them. Told by his doctor he was flirting [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald These are boom times for chess. Boards are sold out. Bookstores can't keep how-tos on the shelves. The reason: Beth Harmon, a Kentucky orphan turned chess [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald After Margaret Thatcher died in 2013, then-President Barack Obama released a statement summing up the extraordinary life of Britain's first female prime minister. 'She stands as [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The fifth episode in the new season of 'The Crown' has a simple one-word title: 'Fagan.' Outside of England, the word Fagan calls to mind not [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald On the new season of 'The Crown,' newly elected Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II seem to get on well enough during their first [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the third episode of the new season of 'The Crown,' Lady Diana Spencer moves into Windsor Castle a few weeks before her wedding to Prince [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Katherine Harris was ready for her close-up. It was two days after the 2000 election between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald George W. Bush was in his pajamas. It was 10 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2000. A day earlier, lawyers representing the Texas governor and Vice President [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald On his way home from delivering the Gettysburg Address in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln was overcome by a splitting headache. A fever was coming on. He [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In reviewing Kamala Harris's performance in Wednesday night's vice-presidential debate, two thoughts occurred to President Donald Trump. 'Totally unlikable,' he said during an interview on Fox [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the spring of 1944, a few months before D-Day, President Franklin Roosevelt's limousine arrived at Bethesda Naval Hospital - the same medical complex President Donald [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald WASHINGTON - In the fall of 1918, as President Woodrow Wilson scrambled to end World War I, the flu pandemic began its lethal march across the [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald On the last day of the Supreme Court's term in 2010, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. opened the day's proceedings with a somber announcement. It was [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the frantic moments after two planes hit the the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney was in [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the hours before the most high-stakes moment of her political career, Geraldine Ferraro turned to the heavens. 'OK, God,' she said. 'Please help me.' She [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald In the fall of 1945, a few months after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, New Yorker writer John Hersey went to lunch [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Seventy-three ago, on an April morning at the port of Texas City near Galveston, crew members of the S.S. Grandcamp were busy loading thousands of pounds [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, R, said Saturday that the state's 24 jurisdictions had each tested 10 percent of their populations for the novel coronavirus, an important [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald One summer afternoon in 1961, President John F. Kennedy, vacationing on Cape Cod, emerged from his sailboat for a picnic with friends. He and first lady [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald One morning in the mid-1980s, as federal Transportation Department employees pulled into their parking lot in Washington, they were greeted by their boss - Transportation Secretary [...]

Byline: Michael S. Rosenwald The lynching began with a knock on the door. It was 3 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1936, a steamy late summer morning in Atlanta. Thomas Finch [...]