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Donald Trump clearly is the anti-president. George Washington willingly surrendered the presidency. Trump encouraged his thugs to attack the Capitol in an illegal attempt to stay in office in ...
The artist, who died Sunday, put his stamp on the city with his giant, eye-popping sculptures of Sam Houston, The Beatles, ...
Every year on Independence Day, I begin reading a book that pertains to our nation’s founding or significant history. Sometimes it is as fundamental as our Declaration of Independence and ...
Commissioners in a Florida county recently approved renaming Southern Boulevard to "President Donald J. Trump Boulevard." ...
Few presidential powers are as consequential and enduring as the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the United ...
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It's hard to believe, but some people forget that I'm a big ol' honkin' nerd. Not just about words, but knowledge in general.
Before they were featured on postcards and added to bucket lists, the world’s most famous landmarks started out like most ...
People have long wanted to add presidents to Mount Rushmore. But there's two big reasons that's unlikely, if not impossible.
The nation's founding document has been celebrated by leaders across the centuries, and it can still guide us today.
A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: the American spirit.
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
The first was a statue of Abraham Lincoln that was unveiled in 1920 to commemorate a century of peace between the United States and the United Kingdom.