Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, an acclaimed author who shared stories of growing up in a Japanese American internment camp during ...

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...

Stuart K. Spencer, a Republican political consultant who engineered Ronald Reagan’s winning campaigns for the California governor’s office and the U.S. presidency, transforming a B-movie actor ...

Spencer helped invent the modern political consulting business with its emphasis on TV-centric campaigning. In a Republican Party that turned sharply rightward and more combative, Spencer was a ...

Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawer ...

Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration's help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the previous November.

One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but ...

His legacy isn’t just weakness, failure and unchecked antisemitism. The visibly diminished president became America’s forgotten man even before he left the White House.

Does a person have to die before he can be recognized for what he did when alive? Perhaps the most maligned president in U.S.

Anita Bryant, an Oklahoma singer and anti-gay rights activist, has died at the age of 84. Bryant died at her Edmond home on Dec. 16, but her death wasn’t announced until her family published an ...

Longtime Rockford Register Star photojournalist Gary L. Carlson was often the first at historic moments and breaking news ...