Boston and Montreal were connected by railroad. The cities celebrated the completion of an interconnecting railroad through Canada and New Hampshire down to Boston with a three-day ...

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Tyler was sworn in as Vice-President in March of 1841. He returned to his home in Virginia not expecting to return to ...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” — ...

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I ask my political science students, “What is your earliest political memory?” I pose the question to figure out what ...

Gen Z voters hardly remember what came before Trump. Soon it may be harder to remember American politics without them. Susan McWilliams Barndt is a politics professor at Pomona College.