Newspapers announced John D. Rockefeller as the first U.S. billionaire 109 years ago. Today there are more than 900 American billionaires.

On Sept. 29, 1916, it was front page news that a surge in Standard Oil's stock price likely made oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller America's first billionaire. More than a century later, the United ...

Christopher Nichols, a professor of history at Ohio State University said ... Demographically, the billionaire class still resembles J.D. Rockefeller in many ways. The vast majority of the world's ...

The Morality-Evidence Gap The conventional wisdom across time and space is to demonise the rich and romanticise the poor and blame their misery on the exploitation by the rich. Yet, what the evidence ...

Like any wealthy family that catches the public’s eye, the Rockefellers had a rather vast closet full of family scandals. Stories of extra-marital affairs, illegitimate children, bigamy, and even ...

CARRYING THE TORCH: Vance will lead an event on Turning Point USA’s campus tour, joining the organization at the University of Mississippi on Oct. 29, alongside Erika Kirk, Axios’ Tal Axelrod writes.

Vice President JD Vance tried Wednesday to rewrite the history of what happened before ABC suspended late-night host Jimmy Kimmel last week, saying a commissioner on the Federal Communications ...

On Sunday, Arizona Diamondbacks star Geraldo Perdomo wrote himself into the franchise history books, becoming the first shortstop in D-backs history to ever record a 100-RBI season. With one out in ...

Bruce Springsteen talks about a lot of things in his new Time magazine cover story: fame, family, therapy, touring with the E Street Band and the 50 th anniversary of his epochal “Born to Run” album — ...

Friday night Jazz Chisholm Jr. accomplished something that had been done only three times previously in New York Yankees history. Chisholm swatted a two-run home run in his club's loss to the ...

In week 4 of the NFL Season, history repeated itself as fans watched USC quarterback lore come full circle. For the first time since 2009, three former Trojans started NFL games at quarterback in the ...

The academic history of Napa spans 170 years. Over these many decades the local public schools have changed in number and size as well as honored notable figures of their time. The first public school ...