Since we are now at a time when the power of the president, Congress and the courts are in tension and generating legal ...

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

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s ...

Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

great grandfather of John Quincy Adams - the sixth president of the US. "Henry Adams was born in Barton St David, although there is a bit of a dispute about where he basically was," said Rob Butt ...

Politics doesn't just unfold in documents and legislation—it also takes shape off the record in social environments.