George W. Bush. Barack Obama ... In that one act, they created a momentary timeline of American history, a strand that connects them to the Roosevelts, to Lincoln and to Washington, the first of them.

What a first lady eats can say a lot about the food values of a presidential administration. Some first ladies have ...

Many of the white supporters were second-generation Jews who had moved to the Washington ... In response to the protest, George Lincoln Rockwell, the head of the American Nazi Party, launched ...

Veterans Day honors military service. The Fourth of July acknowledges the country’s independence. But Presidents Day is something of a mystery. Contrary to popular belief, it’s not a catch-all holiday ...

But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... have been applied to countless situations since Abraham Lincoln first uttered them in 1861.

So, if only Congress can impose taxes, how can the president impose tariffs? Here is the backstory. However one characterizes ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington ... I was with my young kids, meaning that it ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

For a limited time, George Washington’s inaugural coat, which distanced his office from the military and from European royalty, will be on display at Mount Vernon. By Alexander Nazaryan Fashion ...

Among them are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, F.D. Roosevelt, J.F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan and now Trump. Granted, some events help define how large some occupants of the White House loom in ...

Feb. 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first president of the United ...