Many founders wanted the President to be elected/selected by the U.S. Congress, a much smaller body of elites at that time.

On the wall of my office hangs a map given to me many years ago by the Carbon County Higher Education Center for ...

Style's weekly series on travel in Arkansas detours briefly into southeast Missouri to an attraction focused on the ...

Andrew Jackson had a long history with the Indians. During the War of 1812, he led militia forces in a war against Creek ...

The following month, British forces attacked Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. After twenty-five hours of bombarding the fort ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen, composed of troops from France as well as Poland, Germany, Italy and several other allied states. The campaign that followed ...

In 1812 Napoleon invaded Russia with the largest army Europe had ever seen. As it advanced, the Russian army retreated, and by September Napoleon's army had marched 470 miles into the depths of Russia ...