NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss sounded the alarm on just how much power Donald Trump will likely wield when he returns to the White House in January.“We’re about to see possibly the ...

He helped negotiate — with John Adams and Ben Franklin — the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which formally secured recognition of American independence from the British crown and in the eyes of the ...

The 45th and soon-to-be 47th president of the United States is the richest president in history and one of the wealthiest ...

Voting in the 19th century usually involved casting a printed paper ballot. State election laws typically specified the dimensions and thickness of the paper, and the size of type to be used. The rest ...

Ever since 1789, American statesmen have been wary of interference in foreign politics; and when in 1920 the executive sought to extend American influence more fully to international circles ...

Members of the GOP in immigrant-heavy states tried to reassure constituents that Trump is focused on dangerous criminals and ...

The appeal is an appalling document, which exposes both the political bankruptcy of American liberalism and the deplorable ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

Various American states that were not united at one point and fought ... In the first US election held in 1789 and in the ...

With his reelection, Donald Trump now joins Grover Cleveland as only other person elected to a non-consecutive terms as ...

Tariffs are built into the DNA of the American Republic. The Tariff Act of 1789 was America’s seminal legislative achievement, and even the staunchest free traders among the Founding Fathers, like ...

According to Reuters, Trump proposed a 10% tariff on all U.S. imports and a 60% levy on Chinese-made products.