This week marks two hundred years since a 1825 tour of the United States by the Marquis de Lafayette. The French general served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War. LaFayette later ...

Solemnly pledging not to use “state facilities of any sort” to keep himself in power, Alabama’s Governor George Wallace last week turned the state house of representatives into a convention ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...