WASHINGTON — Most of the accolades pouring in for former first lady Barbara Bush, who died Tuesday at 92, center on her role as the matriarch of a powerful American political family. But a few people ...

Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. Feb. 15: Surgeons face such high risk of contracting the AIDS virus that their patients ...

Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. "Having compassion for people with AIDS is like having compassion for starving people.

Before Larry Conklin died this January, he was known as the mayor of Bailey House. It wasn’t because he was particularly popular or that he got involved with group activities. Over Conklin’s ...

"Atlanta OKs Emergency Funding for AIDS/HIV Housing to Avert Crisis," said the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "There Aren't Enough Doctors to Treat HIV in the South" wrote the Pew Charitable Trusts.

In addition to the disastrous earthquake (see this week's News edition of this series), 1989 was full of AIDS: protests, drug treatments, the Nov. 16 eight-page wall of obituary photos, and the staged ...

Thirty years after the first AIDS cases were identified, Washingtonians reflect on what the early years of the epidemic were like, the toll the disease has taken, and why there’s an ongoing crisis in ...

In an emotional speech during the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday night, Oprah Winfrey paid a tearful tribute to her late brother, Jeffrey Lee, who died from AIDS in 1989 when he was 29.

In March, Hillary Clinton mistakenly rewrote American history when she thanked the Reagans (particularly Nancy) for helping to start “a national conversation” about HIV and AIDS. It took mere seconds ...

Charlotte Kempner Beyers, an educational filmmaker whose first effort, “AIDS in Your School,” was used in elementary and high schools to educate children about the disease, has died. She was 73.