The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...

This lesson features several notable examples of historic presidential farewell addresses. The lesson opens with an introductory video clip in which author Andrew Carroll talks about the power and ...

As white Americans moved further westward into the Nebraska territory after the Civil War, they kept fashioning a new ...

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About 7,000 public servants make up the Smithsonian Institution. That’s a fact that Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III ...

The historical moment happened on Jan. 14, 1784, when the Continental Congress ratified, or approved, the Treaty of Paris, ...

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At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 85.88, hit the intra-day peak of 85.85 before settling at the lowest-ever level of 86.00 (provisional) against the greenback, 14 paise lower from ...

Building the Worlds That Kill Us shows how social, political, and economic order in the U.S. has always favored some, at the ...

Pittsburgh goes into Saturday's wild-card matchup against Baltimore with a four-game regular-season losing streak and a ...

While Trump supporters regularly downplay his aggressive tendencies, his critics see a slide to authoritarian rule ...

The best way to understand Griswold’s mythic insertion of “so help me God” into the presidential oath is through the lens of Christian nationalism. While the phrase is relatively new, Christian ...