Next, students view and analyze three video clips that explain the events that led to Ulysses Grant’s inauguration as president. From there, students learn about the first 100 days of Ulysses ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the invasion of Mexico.

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

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Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration in 1913 was the warmest with a noon temperature of 55 degrees. Ulysses S. Grant’s second inauguration in 1873 was the coldest at 16 degrees, with a wind ...

1873 — Inauguration of President Ulysses S. Grant Elder George Q. Cannon, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Utah Territorial delegate. 1877 — Inauguration of President Rutherford B.

Recently, a Texas lawmaker introduced legislation to replace Ben Franklin’s name and likeness on the $100 with President ...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

President Donald Trump alluded to arcane legal arguments in suggesting he could seek a third term. Besides challenging long-settled readings of the U.S. Constitution, a Trump move to run in 2028 would ...

In Norton, Kansas, presidential runners-up are celebrated. For 60 years, the town has invited tourists to visit a museum on the second floor of The First State Bank downtown. Bank customers can see it ...

A Washington Post review of websites operated by the National Park Service found that edits on dozens of pages since ...

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.