FDR

At a once-segregated base in heart of the Confederacy, four of America’s first Black Marines were finally recognized with one of our highest civilian honors.

Governor Huey Long was so anxious to get to the White House that he built his own in Baton Rouge. An assassin’s bullet cut short Long’s ambitions, but his gaudy knock-off survives.

If you can watch Netflix on an international flight, why won’t jets stream precious data so it doesn’t sink to the bottom of the sea in the event of a crash?

For Stalin, Roosevelt’s drink-mixing sat ‘cold on the stomach,’ but still the president tinkered—particularly when it came to perfecting Martinis.

The Japanese internment camps comprised the worst blot on Roosevelt’s civil liberties record, but he also approved spying and harassment of other citizens who opposed the war effort.