When President Donald Trump ordered an armada of naval vessels, fighter planes, bombers and high-tech surveillance drones to the Middle East, …
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. ― He helped supply the Continental Army during the early days of the American Revolution. He signed the Declaration of Indep…
Can it be a coincidence, or merely a case of synchronicity, that in the age of Trump — a decade-long epoch that began in 2015 — several seriou…
An aggressive administration fires federal employees, changes geographical names and appoints a vaccine skeptic to high office. Opponents of t…
The distinguished historian David Herbert Donald once tried to prompt John F. Kennedy to evaluate the performances of his predecessors. "No on…
It's one thing to have the fancy-pants people say that Donald Trump has vulgar taste: gold-plated chairs that one commentator said "look like …
With history as our guide, if the elections were held today on a scale from 1 to 100, the Democrats would already have a 9 to 1 lead over form…
Ronald Reagan had it, Jimmy Carter didn't. George H.W. Bush had it until he didn't, and the same can be said for his successor, Bill Clinton. …
One candidate worried about the country being a "house divided" by slavery but saw a future where "it will cease to be divided." Another spoke…