Amos T. Akerman was a curious case to become President Ulysses S. Grant's attorney general, as depicted in Guy Gugliotta’s ...

In 1919, member Mildred Lewis Rutherford and the United Confederate Veterans published “The Measuring Rod,” a historical ...

Accomplished historian Peter Cozzens latest book focuses on Deadwood, South Dakota between 1876 and 1879. He says those who ...

Mark Twain was first encountered by the reviewer as the avuncular, white-haired visage joining the purple-clad Robert Louis ...

To be roasted by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish—the subject of my new book, Glitz ... Stuyvesant’s Father had been the Secretary of State under President Ulysses S. Grant, and the family had made a great deal ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

In a long story headlined “Stinkpot Subterfuge,” the Deseret News attacked the AP. The paper, owned by The Church of Jesus ...

During sweaty summer months, Abraham Lincoln often decamped about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the White House to the ...

Georgia O’Keeffe’s favorite hangout in the Panhandle. Ulysses S. Grant’s East Texas escape. A wharf worker’s cottage in ...

Guiteau turned to politics and during the 1880 presidential campaign, he wrote a speech in support of Ulysses S. Grant. He passionately and firmly believed that Grant was the right man for the job.

Historical documents show how Philadelphia book dealer and notorious Washington signature forger Robert Spring found an ...