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

Cities across Missouri are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with various events in the coming months: ...

From the Gaza Riviera to the Golden Dome over Greenland, the US President has proposed several outlandish schemes ...

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) departed her homeport of Naval Station Norfolk and is now operating in the Atlantic Ocean bound ...

Historical artifacts, including land surveys by George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, a letter written by Abraham Lincoln ...

With this plan foiled by needing space for Lincoln's big old head, Borglum intended instead to place a grand room within the ...

From the early 19th century on, the United States expanded by acquiring territory through purchase or force. By expressing ...

The thing about Doris Kearns Goodwin is: She’s cool. Maybe not red-carpet, TikTok kind of cool. But historically speaking, as one of America’s foremost historians, she is her own kind of cool. The ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington on politics, demographics and inequality. On Dec. 24, 2008, President George W. Bush revoked the pardon he granted a day earlier to Isaac Robert ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Mint is issuing special circulating coins to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American's adoption of the Declaration of ...

Between 1927 and 1941, Gutzon Borglum, his son and a crew of about 400 blasted and carved away in excess of 450,000 tons of granite from a mountain named Mt. Rushmore. (The mountain’s most famous name ...

I am all for honoring George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt, some of the greatest presidents of the United States, but I have mixed feelings about Mount Rushmore ...