In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president. But after a ...

Kevin Butterfield is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Constitution is remarkably ...

After President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, California leaders explain the state's unique history with the 14th Amendment.

Actually, there is no compelling evidence that any president added "so help me God" before September 1881, when Chester A. Arthur was sworn in after the death of James Garfield. But it was ...

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ...

The history of how Hopi reached this point is a long and complex one. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order creating a reservation for Hopis and “such other Indians as ...

Trump is on the verge of a return to the Oval Office as President of the United States, and some are checking the 22nd ...

First and second children constitute 56 percent of the presidents.

Among them were Thomas Jefferson’s daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph, Andrew Jackson’s daughter-in-law Sarah Yorke Jackson, and his wife’s niece Emily Donelson, and Chester A. Arthur’s sister Mary ...

None of the four presidential successors in the 19th century — John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865) and Chester A. Arthur (1881) — would go on to be elected to a full term ...

A Chester County native now living in California ... victory Historians Thought This Was a Medieval Site Linked to King Arthur. It Turned Out to Be a Mysterious Monument Built 4,000 Years Earlier ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration comes at a pivotal time in American history. Insulated from controversy, Trump ...