Historian Douglas Brinkley (Rice University) recalled a conversation he had with Donald Trump shortly after his 2016 presidential victory. Trump mused about having his name “carved” on Mt. Rushmore ...

Victory parades abounded after the 20th century’s world wars. But the last major military parade in Washington was in 1991.

The Army had long planned a celebration for its semi-quincentennial on June 14. Trump has wanted to preside over a grand ...

Among the standout items is a lock of George Washington’s greying hair, preserved in a locket passed down through generations. Another highlight is a US flag that draped Abraham Lincoln’s ...

The U.S. will observe Juneteenth on Thursday. Juneteenth was recognized as a federal holiday in 2021. It goes back to 1865 in Galveston, Texas.

There is a dispatch from Japan to President Abraham Lincoln’s administration ... said Melani McAlister, a George Washington University professor of American studies and international affairs ...

Such individuals as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill – and yes, Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Most of these people felt an inchoate calling or had a ...

The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will not be the first U.S. military parade, though it's unusual outside of wartime.

The assassination of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the shooting of another lawmaker and his wife at their homes are just the latest addition to a long and unsettling ...

In May 1865, the national government threw itself a parade. It had been more than a month since the rebellion in defense of ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...