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 ...

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

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

A memo directing prosecutors to dismiss the charges against Adams said they distracted the New York mayor from efforts to ...