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, ...

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Donald J. Trump came in hot when he took the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025.

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

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

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A host of tributes across America recognize the achievements of pioneering Black union leader A. Philip Randolph — his ...

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William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression, has died at age 102.

The amendment was ratified on Feb. 27, 1951, following President Franklin Roosevelt's unprecedented ... only 48 states in the U.S. at the time. George Washington voluntarily stepped down from ...