I recently returned from a trip to Texas to complete the final stage of my goal to visit all 13 official presidential libraries/museums. Included in this trip were visits to ...

The Case for Trump's Trade Policy** In the face of continued debate over trade policies, it's imperative to clarify one crucial point: tariffs are not taxes. Critics of President Donald Trump's ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

As Democrats try to understand why they lost the last presidential election and especially why, according to Roper Exit polls, half of voters with less than $50,000 in family income ...

Oregon has won its last 10 road games, the longest active streak in the nation. No one else has won more than their last five ...

In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected ...

Debt has a way of deciding policy for you. You can ignore it, and then one day it stops being background noise and becomes the story.

The Trumans moved out of Blair House and returned to live in the White House on March 27, 1952. For the better part of four years, the White House had been undergoing renovations before President ...

Uncle Henry, Lanny Ross, Annette Hanshaw, Mabel Jackson, Jules Bled-soe, a blackface team whose names escaped me, and a Hall Johnson choir made the Show Boat act worth any-body’s while. And I guess ...

Commentary: By threatening to withhold funding, Trump overlooks the fact that academic research has yielded groundbreaking ...