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

Visitors to the Orange County Park can see a replica of Fort Christmas, which was built on Christmas Day in 1837 amid the ...

President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) contributed the largest percentage increase to U.S. national debt to date. Roosevelt entered office when the United States was in the depths of the Great ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...

Edmond Dédé's 1887 magnum opus "Morgiane"—billed as "the most important opera never heard"—will finally get its premiere ...

Duel pistols were no match for the White House incumbent, who fended off the assailant with his cane on this date in 1835 ...

Protectionist tariff taxes are nothing more than a price-fixing conspiracy orchestrated by the state that enriches a ...

By the beginning of the 20th century, the Republican leader had sharply increased tariffs and pursued an expansionist foreign policy.