In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

For a president in the mid-19th century to show such personal concern for a Black man’s welfare is astounding. But consider ...

With the cost of living spiraling out of control, why are state lawmakers concentrating on issues like requiring Washington ...

With a stellar cast and even better beards, "Death by Lightning" turns the assassination of James Garfield into one of the ...

The Supreme Court has extended an order blocking full SNAP payments amid signals that the government shutdown could soon end ...

As Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymandering efforts push our increasingly fraught democracy through its latest stress test, it ...

Vice President Vance entered office determined to serve as a political Swiss army knife and defender of President Trump’s ...

On Nov. 2, 1948, in one of the most unexpected results in U.S. presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated the heavily favored Republican governor of New York, Thomas ...

The Senate was voting Thursday on legislation that would check President Donald Trump's ability to launch an attack against ...

As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War. America was halfway ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stirred a nation when he told Americans that the “only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” ...