The 2025 season will get underway for Vermont's state historic sites with the opening of Bennington Battlefield Monument, ...

Three years ago, fourth-graders at Chester A. Arthur Elementary School in South Philadelphia researched their school’s ...

Mount Independence, Chimney Point, Calvin Coolidge, and Hubbardton Battlefield will all open one week later, on May 23.

Three years ago, fourth-graders at Chester A. Arthur Elementary School in South Philadelphia researched their school’s namesake. The students learned America’s 21st president had signed the ...

But that changed as America pushed westward. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order restricting the ...

Strangers in the Land” by Michael Luo shows how a people who were met with racist cruelty pressed the United States to make ...

On the day Garfield died, Guiteau wrote to then-President Chester A. Arthur: “My inspiration is a godsend to you and I presume that you appreciate it. . . . Never think of Garfield’s removal ...

The President Chester A. Arthur State Historic Site will open last on May 24. The Senator Justin Morrill State Historic Site and Old Constitution House will be closed this season for preservation ...

This Act was signed by Vermont-born President Chester A. Arthur. It was the first United States law to place broad restrictions on immigration. Eventually it was expanded and Chinese residents were ...

Ever since President Chester A. Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883, the executive branch of the federal government has been run professionally, if not always efficiently.

Read the Bank of England Act of 1998. Chinese Exclusion Act barred Chinese laborers from US On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed the Chinese Exclusion Act, barring Chinese laborers from ...