Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

Presidents Day was established to honor America’s first president, George Washington, but it’s since morphed into a celebration for all presidents.

The two presidents in the 1800s were born near Charlotte but carried out their political careers in Tennessee.

Long-obscured and forgotten, the burial plots of more than two dozen people enslaved by the seventh president of the US are ...