Barack Obama was the first American president to celebrate a seder in the White House, a tradition that started in Harrisburg

It was April 2008. The Pennsylvania primaries were a few days away. Eric Lesser, Herbie Ziskend, and Arun Chaudhary, recent college grads working on Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, realized ...

Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon

While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: ...

Obama Presidential Center's replica Oval Office is nearly complete

Virtually everything interior designer Michael S. Smith put in the original Oval Office — furniture, books, carpet, artwork ...