The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one ...

President Biden announced the names of new Navy aircraft carriers: the USS William J. Clinton and the USS George W. Bush, ...

The designs Pierre L'Enfant created for George Washington spearheaded the development of Washington, D.C., as it stands today.

In the good ole days—and I guess that statement dates me—national holidays and national recognition days came few and far between. January would pass by without much fanfare, and Abraham ...

When Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with ...

Though modern job approval metrics were a bit lacking during the late 1790s, historians have for decades considered George ... States. Washington finished behind only Abraham Lincoln in the ...

In addition to being president, Abraham ... Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% ...

on California Burning Abraham Lincoln's 215th birthday offers us an opportunity, which should be renewed annually, to reflect upon the man who rivals George Washington as the greatest American.

When Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with ...