Edward III ascends to the English throne after the abdication of Edward II. 1533: Henry VIII marries his second ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

Accordingly, the 1840 election set a precedent for candidates ... Just eight years later, another iconic campaign song would frame the presidential election of 1960. For his campaign song, the ...

President William Henry Harrison died exactly one month after he delivered a nearly two hour inaugural address in the rain and cold.

Due to his shortened presidency, Harrison is widely remembered for his 1840 ... the Presidential Inauguration was moved from March 4 to January 20 to reduce the transition period between Election ...

“The inaugural address, the parades, the pageantry are not mandated, but simply have developed historically over time,” says presidential historian Allan ... t entirely unprecedented. During the 1840 ...

Politics / StudentNation / Measures to allow local noncitizen voting failed in the last election, but that hasn’t always been the case throughout American history. Fatimah Azeem This story was ...

The Republican wants to exercise power from day one, with promises of political revenge and plans for mass deportations. His return to the White House on Monday represents a test of strength for US de ...

Then there is the insuperable problem of how pre 1840 tribal customs can have any relevance to ... at school and university and a one-eyed media. The recent American Presidential election looks set to ...

Katherine Jane Chase was born in Cincinnati on a muggy Thursday in August 1840. Her father ... Chase sought the nascent Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1860, losing to Abraham ...

Another theory is that the Democrat Party ran with OK as an acronym for “Old Kinderhook” during the 1840 presidential election. “Old Kinderhook” was a nickname for the Democrat candidate, Martin Van ...