Burgat is a former congressional staffer turned professor of legislative affairs at George Washington University. He is the author of We Hold These "Truths": ...

Donald Trump enters his second presidency, as he did his first, pledging to wield executive power in novel and aggressive ...

Forty years after Washington’s farewell and two decades before the Civil War, President Andrew Jackson offered his own ...

A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At ...

These six American fires led to change: political, legislative and geographic. Those tragedies helped shape the evolving ...

The Night Garden by Michael Chabon Chabon’s first novel for adults since 2016, inspired by a short story by Nathaniel ...

Socialite Perle Mesta used her fortune to host inclusive dinner parties in Washington, D.C., becoming one of the most famous ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

This lesson features several notable examples of historic presidential farewell addresses. The lesson opens with an introductory video clip in which author Andrew Carroll talks about the power and ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black ...

The Library of Michigan chooses books published the previous year that are about Michigan or the Great Lakes or are written ...