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

An English village has links to FIVE American presidents - but some locals say they are "not thrilled" with Trump's return to ...

For the Founding Fathers, the pursuit of happiness meant the pursuit of long-term virtue, National Constitution Center ...

Key point: The House rejected the motion to investigate Tyler for the impeachable offenses of “corruption, malconduct, high crimes and misdemeanors,” by a vote of 127-83. The president’s ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Washington, DC, has acquired the earliest known photograph of a US first lady.

Jones was a mentor to generations of artists, including Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, John Legend and Jacob Collier, all of ...

The Grammy Awards will feature a salute to Quincy Jones and tributes to Los Angeles with Stevie Wonder, Cynthia Erivo, Lainey ...

The New York City mayor took a combative tone in a speech to clergy members after several days of absence from public ...

Adams rejected speculation that there have been negotiations with prosecutors that he would plead guilty to corruption ...

NEW YORK - Senior Justice Department officials have held discussions with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about the ...