"The only president to ever avoid an inauguration was the guy that's about to be inaugurated," Biden said in December 2024.

A once famous essay published in 1888 asked “Why Great Men Are Not Chosen Presidents.” It’s time to dust it off.

The writer, Viscount James Bryce, an English aristocrat writing for Europeans, made shrewd observations about the presidency ...

The President of the United States serves as the Commander in Chief of the nation’s armed forces. While not in the chain of command, the Vice President is next in line to take command. Although these ...

A persistent myth about Donald Trump is that he had the Resolute Desk (made from the HMS Resolute and gifted to president ...

David McCullough’s John Adams is brave yet filled with self-doubt ... This is as much a biography of the Senate as of Johnson’s time in it; readers will come away with a much deeper ...

A. K. Smiley Public Library has many new biographies to choose from, with more coming soon. Selections include presidents, ...

Robert Adams, who died 150 years ago on January 13th, “became known as the revered father of Irish surgery”, according to the entry on him in the Dictionary of Irish Biography by Helen Andrews.

Anthony Hopkins was well into his fifties when he became a Hollywood leading man, especially when he won the Oscar for Best ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

John Adams (Paul Giamatti) is a respected lawyer and farmer in Boston. After the Boston Massacre he is sought as a defense counsel for the British sentries involved by their commander, Captain Thomas ...

A showcase of teens’ talent and creativity includes flower silhouettes, neon acrylic artwork inspired by the artist Derrick ...