Today’s lawmakers hailed the 39th president, but their predecessors made his four years in office a constant battle and ...

With the start of the new year, Naperville Public Library looks back on the books, CDs, movies and games that resonated most ...

Former President Jimmy Carter is being honored in Washington National Cathedral, where the country’s five living presidents have gathered to bid farewell to one of their own, joining current and ...

At a pomp-filled state funeral, mourners paid tribute to Mr. Carter and argued that he was a more successful leader than many ...

Ironically, in a speech about a “crisis of confidence” Carter himself came across as not confident. Although he did lay out a plan, the speech lacked any single phrase that anyone could look at ...

Louis Schittly, a French physician whose experiences in an African war zone in the late 1960s led him to help start Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, an aid group that received the ...

A long-time advocate for military women, Diane Carlson Evans received one of the nation’s highest civilian honors during ...

An Unfinished Love Story” provides an unflinching, up-close-and-personal record of “the political cauldron of the Sixties,” ...

Doug Hegdahl, 22, was captured by the Vietnamese after falling off his warship. Dubbed 'The Incredibly Stupid One' by his ...

For Spencer Matteson, the memories of a battlefield "covered with dead bodies" are still painful. But with his help, ...

They can also be denied services and benefits — or opportunities for citizenship — promised by military recruiters.

It’s little surprise to avid readers and library users that Kristin Hannah topped the list as the most read author. Her ...