News | Academics As Columbia unveils official oral history of President Barack Obama, CC ’83, project leaders reflect on how they captured his ‘transformational presidency’ The project, conducted by ...

The 44th, and the first African American president of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. When he was only two, his father left to study at Harvard ...

Hard Hat Riot revisits New York in 1970, when student protestors against the Vietnam War violently clashed with construction ...

As America turns 250 years old in 2026, CBS News Chicago is looking back at two presidents who called Illinois home. Nearly 150 years separated the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, ...

Students traveled to Chicago for a two-day educational trip, visiting the Obama Presidential Center just three months after it opened.

President Barack Obama will curl up with the six books that have most influenced him — along with six “luminaries” to discuss the works — in a new podcast from Audible and Higher Ground. Amazon’s ...