Boston and Montreal were connected by railroad. The cities celebrated the completion of an interconnecting railroad through Canada and New Hampshire down to Boston with a three-day ...

Days after Buchanan took office, the United States Supreme Court handed down one of its most infamous rulings - the Dred ...

A North Carolina trial judge has refused to block students and employees at the state’s flagship public university from being able to show a digital identification to comply with a largely new photo ...

Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay ...

The body of Tyler lays buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, not far from the gravesite of President James Monroe, ...

Prior to becoming the 13th president, Fillmore practiced law in New York and served eight years in the House of ...

Everyone knows the two major players in American politics: the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. At all elections ...

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Throughout the early days of Arkansas’ statehood leading up to the Civil War, a powerful group of Democrats known as the “The ...

The presidential office was first envisioned to be more like a clerk's job, and in its earliest incarnation, it was almost ...

Hundreds of students packed into three floors of Whig Hall Tuesday night to watch the first presidential debate between ...

Today, the Whig party is largely forgotten, perhaps only known as a punchline for a failed political party. In 1840, that was not the case. Your browser does not ...