Do you think that American legislators are hindered by partisan politics? Take a historical trip back to 1842 when the country was on the brink of a financial disaster that led to public disgust of ...

There was confusion about whether Tyler would be the next president since the Constitution was unclear about presidential ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** By the latter part of the 1830s, ...

(WHTM) It was the most amazing surgery of the 1840s, the procedure you read about in all the history books. It’s the one depicted in paintings. It brought the concept of general anesthesia to doctors ...

Angelina Eberley fires off the cannon at the agents attempting to move the archives from her hometown of Austin. Texas State Library and Archives Commission The French philosopher Jacques Derrida once ...

Founded in 1842, before Canada itself, Pickering College stands as one of the nation’s oldest and most respected boarding ...

Sitting right on the edge of the Gulf Coast, the state of Texas is no stranger to hurricanes and tropical storms. An interactive map from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows ...

On Nov. 4, 1842, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd were married in the home of her older sister and brother-in-law, Elizabeth and Ninian Edwards. That old Edwards home is long gone – demolished in 1918 to ...