On June 17, 1972, police caught five men breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in…
On the evening of August 2, 1923, President Warren Harding died in a San Francisco hotel room. Beyond that, the details of the…
It is a fact of American history that three of the five Founding Father Presidents died on Independence Day. But was it just a…
On May 28, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an important part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s NIRA plan, when the…
On this day in 1789, the First Congress under our current Constitution met in its first joint session in New York and undertook an…
U.S. Senate confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominees have been called a “Kabuki dance,” a subtle minuet,” and even a…
Grover Cleveland stands alone in American history as the only President to serve non-consecutive terms. On the anniversary of his…
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Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, has a birthday today. But how much do you know about one of the most controversial…
At first glance, climate change and vaccine mandates seem to have nothing in common, but the two are linked in a U.S. Supreme…
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