With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely ... the nation’s military hero, had ended the War of 1812 ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower’s heroic status, tracing back to World War I, brought the devoted general to become U.S. president without having political experiences. During his youth, Eisenhower served in ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

The 19th century term describes the perceived right of Americans to use force or the threat of force to wrest desireable land ...

A president's inauguration is a historic day ... to D.C. The first inauguration to be held outdoors was President James Monroe's ceremony in 1817. Interestingly, Roosevelt's fourth inaugural ...

The United States would seem to bring a strong hand to such an order—it commands the world’s largest economy, its most capable military, and arguably ... from older American impulses. In 1823, ...

Hegseth was dragged out of a strip club where he was getting lap dances in military uniform ... slammed former President Joe Biden for pardoning his son Hunter, brother James and other relatives ...

James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren and James Buchanan, have all gone on to be elected president. More recent secretaries of state have been less successful in their political ...

Lawsuits challenged President Trump’s executive orders ... including on one occasion she witnessed when he was wearing his military uniform. The allegations, which Mr. Hegseth denied through ...

Chas. Floyd Johnson is the executive producer for the long-running CBS TV series “NCIS” and won an Emmy for his work on “The ...

Our 47th president takes the oath of office on Monday, and in his declarations about wanting to acquire Greenland and reacquire the Panama Canal we hear echoes of our fifth president, the Virginian ...