With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

Donald Trump’s early administration moves are accelerating the concentration of executive power at the expense of Congress.

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

Donald Trump took oath today as the 47th US President at the US Capitol Rotunda, marking his second term as head of the state ...