While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

So, if only Congress can impose taxes, how can the president impose tariffs? Here is the backstory. However one characterizes ...

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

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As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, "It's all about common sense." ...

Some might have found it unlucky, maybe even a bit intimidating. But Morgan Beronius saw an opportunity. And she and her partner Gavin Molina turned that opportunity – created when they drew ...

But this hypothetical Gaza land-grab, and the displacement of Palestinians it implied, tells us so much about Trump’s second ...

George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

The rumor that Biden spent nearly half of his presidency on vacation came from an exaggerated and incorrect Republican ...

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

A morbid new survey asked Americans which celebrity they'd want to be buried next to most. These 11 dead celebs were the most ...

FDR proposes Supreme Court additions in 1937, Elizabeth takes throne after King George dies in 1952, truckers’ strike affects Sussex County in 1974 ...