Two former presidents have ties to South-Central Pennsylvania. The 15th president, James Buchanan, is the only president from ...

On Presidents’ Day each year, it has been my wont to regret the holiday’s celebration of insipid ubiquity. Instead of ...

Here’s the connection between our roads and the men for whom they’re named and why we we ended up with so many.

ChatGPT shared the following facts: 1. James Garfield's ambidextrous ability to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the ...

An obscure New Jerseyan named William Dayton nearly knocked Abraham Lincoln out of his place in history. Dayton was elected to the New Jersey Legislature ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

While the Kennedys and Trumps of the world were born to wealthy families with large estates, other presidents had far more ...

Democrats never really had a candidate to run against Abraham Lincoln in 1860, but they still managed to get three electoral ...

Names are tricky things. What was the federal holiday at the start of this week? Most people say “Presidents Day,” but there ...

If the monarchical trappings and powers of the modern presidency are unavoidable, we at least should not encourage them. Neither Congress nor the Supreme Court has its own holiday. The presidency ...