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Taxation without Representation, Suffrage Collection.

Death, Taxes, and the American Founders

John Quincy Adams.

WikiLeaks Reveals a Professionalism of Recent Vintage in the History of American Diplomacy

"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.

The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery

1892 Populist Party presidential campaign button.

“Party Like It’s 1892!”

Family members of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble attending his Medal of Honor ceremony.

Honoring Native American Veterans This Veterans Day

Stock photo of a pen on paper.

History News Service Feeds Popular Hunger for Good History and Good Journalism

Saxonburg Memorial Church.

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

Richesons Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

The Separation of Church and State Is Rooted in American Christianity

Three Young White Men and a Black Woman (1632) by Christiaen van Couwenbergh.

A Question of Power, Not Sex

Lady Liberty, wearing a cape labeled "Votes for Women," stands astride the states (colored white) that had adopted suffrage. A poem by Alice Duer Miller is printed beneath.

Smile, You’re a Liberal After All!

Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Final Vote.

True Bipartisanship Is Not Love and Kisses

Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

Official Presidential portrait of Thomas Jefferson (by Rembrandt Peale, 1800).

Jefferson: Founding Father and Connoisseur

Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy meeting with Kagan.

What’s Wrong With Kagan’s Confirmation Hearings

President Obama and McChrystal in the Oval Office in May 2009.

The Presidents and the McGenerals

North College Hill, Ohio, USA, Memorial Day parade, 2004, by Rick Dikeman.

A Vanishing American Remembrance?

STS-116 mission specialists, NASA astronaut Robert Curbeam and ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang perform extravehicular activity (EVA) during construction of the International Space Station.

Facing Opportunities and Obstacles in Space

First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.

The Distant Horizon of a President

This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Native Americans.

Tea Parties Then and Now — A Crucial Difference

Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.

Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power

members of the Tea Party holding signs

The Great American Debate Recommences

Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.

Choking Off Our Past

Obama wore Isabel Toledo clothes made of St. Gallen Embroidery to the 2009 presidential inauguration.

Is Michelle Obama the Ultimate Insider?

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