Elyria Police Officer Howard Taft was shot and killed by a suspect he’d just arrested. That incident took place 80 years ago on Aug. 18, 1942. Representatives from the Police Department as well as ...

Opening Day welcomes the new spring baseball season each year, a uniquely American tradition steeped in history and fanfare. And on this day in history, April 14, 1910, President William Howard Taft ...

Perhaps the most lasting moment of William Howard Taft’s U.S. presidency took place in his bathtub. It certainly wasn't any of his political activities — even his official White House biography calls ...

Park Rangers at the William Howard Taft National Historic Site cut into a cake celebrating the Park Service's centennial. The National Park Service is marking its centennial with a year-long ...

WASHINGTON (Sept. 15, 2014) -- William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States was honored on the occasion of his birthday by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, Joint Force ...

U.S. President William H. Taft and Mrs. Taft sit in a car en route to the White House in this undated file photo from the Library of Congress. Covering politics for a living has always seemed to me to ...

Forget the political alliances and policy decisions made in the Oval Office; within the walls of the White House, some of the most fascinating bits of history were being cooked up in the kitchen.

William Howard Taft, pictured with his wife, Nellie Taft, in an undated photo, wanted to be chief justice, not president. (AP) Review by H.W. Brands H.W. Brands teaches at the University of Texas at ...

EXCLUSIVE: The White House and the Supreme Court have a complicated relationship these days. When President Biden took office, he launched a commission on reorganizing the court, responding to calls ...

During a week when Washington has been unable to focus on anything other than the legacy of William Howard Taft, it's been a pleasure trying to channel our most judicial president on tariffs, Facebook ...