After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

One of America’s greatest love stories can be understood through more than 1,000 eloquent letters that were sent between John ...

Out of the seven ‘Founding Fathers,’ only John Adams and Samuel Adams didn’t own slaves. Both men were Northerners. Thomas ...

History doesn’t think less of presidents like John Adams, James Madison and George H.W. Bush for having their picks turned down, but if Hegseth fails, or does real damage, then Trump (and the ...

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often surprised to learn that the leaders of the Revolution were young or ...

the Founding Fathers would work on the Declaration of Independence until it was officially signed on July 4, 1776, by some of the most influential figures in US history, like John Adams ...

I would judge him as an extraordinary person who had flaws that we can’t discount but overall an amazingly positive force in ...

ChatGPT shared the following facts: 1. James Garfield's ambidextrous ability to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the ...

Leaders of local arts organizations are expressing concern and uncertainty after learning that a grant program supporting the ...

The holiday hasn’t been celebrated on Washington’s actual birthday of Feb. 22, or any other president’s birthday, for more ...

When the United States Mint was created in 1792, one of the first coins it made was the one-cent coin. The image on the first ...