While Lincoln has ranked at the top of each survey, the two presidents who served right before him – Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, both sympathetic to slavery – and his immediate successor, ...

Standard Oil, later Amoco, built its Wood River refinery in 1907, leveraging the location's transportation and water ...

He won two major history prizes and served as a consultant for filmmaker Ken Burns. His books charted the evolution of the American presidency.

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102. Leuchtenburg was on the ...

In a square that celebrates Britain's military triumphs stands a reminder of an historic defeat that paved the way for the ...

Once upon a time, there were liberal Republicans, conservative Democrats and plenty of centrists on both sides.

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, "It's all about common sense." ...

Donald J. Trump came in hot when he took the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025.

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

Discover the remarkable life of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and co-founder of CORE and SCLC. His contributions to ...

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...