Next, students view and analyze three video clips that explain the events that led to Ulysses Grant’s inauguration as president. From there, students learn about the first 100 days of Ulysses ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the invasion of Mexico.

Even presidents need the occasional sugar fix. From George Washington to Donald Trump, these are the go-to desserts for ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

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Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in 1913 was the warmest with a noon temperature of 55 degrees. Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873 was the coldest at 16 degrees, with a wind ...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

Speculation is swirling online that the president will invoke martial law, which some social media users appear to be conflating with the Insurrection Act.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

Rendered in a modern style, the portrait shows Donald Trump with blood streaming down his face, his fist raised in defiance, ...