James Knox Polk, the 11th President of the U.S. (1845-1849), has his ancestry home in Columbia, Tenn., that was built in 1816 and is National Historic landmark.

From the earliest days of the republic, the intersection of money and power has often intertwined when it comes to the US ...

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Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...

Before his short-lived presidency, Zachary Taylor grew up wealthy in. He was laid to rest near his old Kentucky home in 1850.

Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.

A woman who was part of a "Trump Train" of cars and pickup trucks that surrounded a Biden-Harris campaign bus says the ...

While George Washington may have been “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” he was not ...

One of the people who was sued in the 2020 Biden bus confrontation clashes with plaintiffs' lawyer during Tuesday testimony.

(BELOW) Photograph dated March 18, 1871 of a barricade, Rue de Germaine and Rue Sevastopol, during the Paris Commune. At the ...

Long before Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris launched their presidential campaigns, Victoria Claflin Woodhull ran as a third ...

A jury will soon decide whether a so-called Trump Train that circled a Biden-Harris campaign bus violently intimidated former ...