When our first populist president, Andrew Jackson, claimed that his 1832 reelection constituted a broad mandate for his ...

Perhaps if 19th-century presidents had experienced the 21st-century exhilaration of governing by executive orders, Zachary Taylor would not have been so reluctant to become one. In 1848, Taylor was at ...

President William Henry Harrison died exactly one month after he delivered a nearly two hour inaugural address in the rain and cold.

President Harrison was the first of four presidents to belong to the Whig Party ... President James Polk and President Zachary Taylor developed symptoms similar to Harrison's.

(In 1848, Whig President Zachary Taylor never had unified control of Congress.) That streak was broken when Abraham Lincoln, and his newly formed Republican Party, maintained unified control in ...

When our first populist president, Andrew Jackson, claimed that his 1832 reelection constituted a broad mandate for his entire agenda, his nemesis Sen. Henry Clay demurred: “Sir, the truth is, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Democratic National Committee will elect a new chair on Saturday as the party seeks new leadership to guide Democrats through Donald Trump's second presidency. Eight ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of four men charged in the fatal shooting at a 2024 block party in Arkansas that killed one person and injured several others has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.