United States patent number 6,469 is for "buoying vessels over shoals." Granted on May 22, 1849, the concept involves equipping large boats with "india-rubber cloth, or another suitable waterproof ...

Both Trump and Lincoln treat a group of people as lepers—i.e., Palestinians and blacks—who should be removed from society and denied property rights in their ...

Nancy Mace came under fire for posting a painting where Donald Trump is seated with controversial former president, Richard ...

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

Protestors again rallied at the Illinois capitol on Presidents Day against the Trump administration, despite freezing ...

A short history of the celebration of how we came the celebrate Presidents Day as a national holiday and a day of protest.

The holiday hasn’t been celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday of Feb. 22, or any other president’s birthday, for more ...

Lincoln was sailing up the Great Lakes on his way home from Congress in 1848 when he witnessed another steamer that was aground. The scene led Lincoln to develop an invention to float ships off shoals ...

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 ...

Throughout history, American presidents who have an understanding of rural America and the farmers and ranchers living there ...

The U.S. is celebrating Presidents Day on Monday, and while many will be off work for the federal holiday, they’ll also be wondering where they can go and what they can do.

This year 158 students submitted essays addressing this year’s topic: how the writer has seen the country’s polarization ...