This is the historic last Civil War Funeral of Confederate Lt Andrew Jackson Buttram. This is part I of a 2 part series. The ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

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To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

During his first term in office, Donald Trump adorned the Oval Office with a portrait of our seventh president, Andrew Jackson ... “amateur general.” The Civil War would prove to be a forge ...

Vice President JD Vance, Elon Musk and others in the Trump administration are openly challenging the centuries-old power of ...

On what would be his 203rd birthday, we take a look back at the life of surveyor Edward F. Beale, who owned the land where ...

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.