1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

Donald Trump may have crossed a new line but he isn’t the only potty-mouthed president, a tradition that dates all the way ...

The first true commander-in-chief of the armed forces to lead the Revolutionary War was not, as many believe, George ...

William McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. There’s a reason Trump is so drawn to his legacy—and so ...

In May 1865, the national government threw itself a parade. It had been more than a month since the rebellion in defense of ...

The Spanish-American War was the first major international conflict for a reunited nation since the Civil War. It ended in a U.S. victory that established an American empire: Spain ceded Cuba, Puerto ...

Washington and Lincoln were willing to give their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to establish and save the nation. This Presidents’ Day 2025, we can have restored confidence and gratitude ...

Our suggestions include meals for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Donald Trump, Joe Biden and more. The White House has 132 rooms. It has 28 fireplaces, a bowling alley, three elevators, a ...

“I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead, and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me," Trump once ...

George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and Sam Houston — each about 18 feet tall and weighing 2 tons — stare back dead-eyed at passersby.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, Abraham Lincoln signed the law creating the nation's first income tax in 1862 to help pay for the expenses of the Civil War. It levied a 3% tax on income ...