George Washington's second inauguration took place in Philadelphia in March 1793. Six months later, yellow fever had ripped through America's capital city, taking 5,000 lives. How did the Founding ...

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It was John Marshall, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, who anticipated this day.

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

Next year, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States. The History Channel’s new docuseries “Thomas ...

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, ...

The veteran Oregon senator says Americans should be “damn concerned” about Elon Musk’s incursions into the federal ...

In 1776, America’s founding fathers rebelled against tyrannical England and declared its independence to provide freedom for the pioneers of the new world. America was born and freedom became a hope ...

When America's Founding Fathers affixed a bald eagle to the great seal of the United States in 1782, they likely had no idea they were highlighting what would become one of the greatest wildlife ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

Article III, the Judicial Branch, is the third, separate and equal branch of our United States Government. We have one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts “… as the Congress may from time to time ...