Gillian Brockell

As president, Thomas Jefferson intentionally axed a long American tradition of thanksgiving.

The new season of “The Crown” shows Princess Diana rejecting Dodi al-Fayed’s proposal hours before their car crash. But a key detail about the ring doesn’t match reality.

After he decided to resign, Richard Nixon cried in the arms of Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday, getting down on his knees and wailing, “What have I done?”

The special counsel and Trump’s lawyers have cited Supreme Court rulings on Nixon and presidential immunity — but two different cases with very different outcomes.

Here’s a look at other elected officials disqualified by the same provision the Colorado Supreme Court is citing in removing Donald Trump from the ballot.

The man who ordered the first nationwide “Decoration Day” holiday was responding to reports of Southern towns decorating the graves of dead Confederates.

The amendment failed in the House but had the support of Reps. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), Welsey Hunt (R-Tex.) and Burgess Owens (R-Utah), who are Black.

There were hardly any South Asians living in America when Washington’s step-granddaughter welcomed her new husband’s mixed-race children into the family.

William Bradford Huie’s newly released research notes show he suspected more than two men tortured and killed 14-year-old Emmett Till, but suggest that he left that out when it threatened his story.

During the Great Depression, the Senate passed — and President Franklin D. Roosevelt supported — a bill to establish a standard 30-hour workweek. Then it got derailed.