On This Day, Feb. 4: George Washington elected 1st U.S. president
George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...
Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history
The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents the country’s past.
Why Trump admires President McKinley, the original ‘tariff man’
President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...
Who was Ohio’s President McKinley, and why did Trump rename Denali for him?
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the mountain was named for McKinley in 1896 by William Andrews Dickey, a prospector ...
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John Quincy Adams and the Corrupt Bargain of 1825
With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...
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Donald Trump presidential administration, 2025
He serves with Vice President J.D. Vance (R), a former senator from Ohio. This page provides an overview of Trump's second presidential administration, including top officials and personnel and key ...
The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.
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Trump’s nominee for Pentagon weapons buyer was a key figure in the president's first impeachment
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's nominee to be the military's top weapons buyer is an official who directed the Pentagon to withhold aid from Ukraine in 2019 as Trump sought a commitment ...