1. George Washington: The Architect of Executive Power Washington walked on untrodden ground, shaping the presidency with no ...

George Templeton’s Strong’s journal traces a changing world—and his changing mind—throughout the crisis of the Civil War.

Beginning with the annexation of Texas, which voted to become the 28th state in 1845, Polk aggressively expanded America’s ...

What does the Insurrection Act allow presidents to do? Trump wants to use it to send troops in response to protests after ICE ...

The threat follows days of unrest triggered by an expanded operation by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Donald Trump would not be the first president to invoke the Insurrection Act, as he has now threatened to do as a way to send ...

The Insurrection Act is found in Title 10 - Armed Forces, Subtitle A – General Military Law, Part I – Organization and ...

The news that George Clooney has become a French citizen has sparked plenty of debate online, given that the film star has long positioned himself as a major Hollywood voice on U.S. politics and ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The city of Spokane and members of the Downtown Spokane Partnership Clean Team will spend Tuesday cleaning up paint that was thrown onto an Abraham Lincoln statue downtown. The ...

Guy Gugliotta, Grant’s Enforcer: Taking Down the Klan. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 296 pp. In October 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant invoked the Third Anti-KKK Enforcement Act, ...