They likely aren’t the words distinguished orators like Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama might have chosen to ...

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There is a clear consensus among historians on these points. No, the income tax was not a mistake. But it was something stranger: both a 40-year struggle and an accident. In 1913, the states ratified ...

President Donald Trump alluded to arcane legal arguments in suggesting he could seek a third term. Besides challenging ...

A few pushed against the Washington rule – and failed Historians have debated whether Abraham Lincoln might have pursued a ...

Historians have debated whether Abraham Lincoln might have pursued a third term after the Civil War had he not ... Roosevelt launched a failed third-party campaign and lost, pilloried by critics for ...

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem.

PETERSBURG, Ill. (AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny ...

Roosevelt is one of four presidents whose face is part of Mount Rushmore, the others being George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln, the nation’s first, third, and 16th ...