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President Abraham Lincoln altered the course of the Civil War and American society when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued…
On September 19, 1796, a Philadelphia newspaper published one of the greatest documents in American history: George Washington’s…
William Howard Taft is a truly unique American figure who led two branches of government, was a wrestling champion and the…
President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon on this day in 1974 generated a national controversy, but in recent years, some…
On September 6, 1901, the popular President William McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, while his Vice…
It was on this day in 1964 that a joint session of Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, an act that led to the Vietnam…
Today is the birthday of the late former President, Gerald R. Ford, who went from being a college football star to the White House…
A divided Supreme Court on Friday has struck down an expansive debt-relief program for student loans created during the Covid-19…
On May 28, 1861, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney directly challenged President Abraham Lincoln’s wartime suspension of…
On May 24, 1937, the Supreme Court decided in two separate but related cases that the Social Security Act of 1935 was…
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