Actor Jon Hamm, who rose to fame as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men” and more recently appeared in “Fargo” ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102. Leuchtenburg was on the ...