His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

As Wilmington has grown, we've had more presidential activity over the past quarter-century than in all the decades before ...

Donald Trump is set to make history as only the second president to be inaugurated on MLK Day. Can you guess the first?

Trump has given various indications, but there is no reason to wait for a direct answer. The point of the slogan is to evoke ...

In 1845, during the term of the 11th president, James K. Polk, Congress passed a law making the first Tuesday following the first Monday of November Election Day. In years like 2022, when the ...

But no American president has deployed such rhetoric in a century and half, not since James K. Polk threatened war (“Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”) if Great Britain didn’t surrender a vast ...

Grant, James K. Polk, George H. W. Bush (20th), William ... I feel that often we judge presidents on whether they were reelected, what they did before they were president, magnify their ...