The late Pope Francis came to Washington, D.C., to speak to a Joint Meeting of Congress on Sept. 24, 2015. He wasn’t the ...

In the early 1870s the struggling Bethlehem Iron Company- later Steel- was attempting to make the technological transition ...

The president's latest tariff shakedown makes Tammany Hall and the Daley Machine look like the League of Women Voters.

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

By 1830, public discourse had grown just as toxic as today. During that year’s midterm elections, several blistering speeches ...

Earlier this year, a group of organizers led by a daring performance artist donned 19th-century clothes ... settlers to Louisiana in the 18th century. As Daniel Rasmussen writes in American ...

Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and the National Republicans fought back ... Their funerals were among the largest and most ...

The 1831 duel between Thomas Biddle and U.S. Rep. Spencer Pettis, D-Mo., began with slights against the former's brother and ...

But this production, astutely directed by Margaret Webster, was a more unconditional ... pipe-smoking old soldier in a 19th-century uniform — who haunted the imagination with his unblinking ...