In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto becomes the first European colonizer to discover the Mississippi River. In 1909, ...

On March 8, 1930, William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, died at age 72. And before you ask the ...

Do dire wolves next. In terms of presidential successes, it reminded me of the time President William Howard Taft threw $5,000 into a fire for no particular reason, then reached in and pulled out ...

Challenges: William Howard Taft stumbled dramatically on two important occasions as President: his special congressional session to revise the tariff downward, and his dismissal of Theodore ...

Experience the magic of the Taft Museum of Art Gala, a fundraiser supporting educational programs and an evening of fun and fine dining.

There has been no president in the time of living men more genuinely democratic than William Howard Taft. His simplicity, however, and his good nature carry in them perils for an executive.

His Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1906, for his work in settling the Russian-Japanese War. He was the first American to ...

Taft and Charles P. Taft II, sons of former President William Howard Taft, joined with the older firm to becoming Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP. Like Judge Worthington, the Tafts were also ...

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