ChatGPT shared the following facts: 1. James Garfield's ambidextrous ability to write Greek with one hand and Latin with the ...

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump promised a “revolution of common sense.” However, one area of US government ...

However, his inaugural address is surprisingly mild and reassuring. He could have been as tough on departing President John Quincy Adams as Mr. Trump was with the betrayals and failures of the ...

This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “The Era of Might Makes Right.” When you buy a book ...

Many of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Dennis Quaid, Anthony Hopkins and Josh Brolin, have played former presidents in ...

Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge were sworn in without a Bible as were Theodore Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams. Interestingly, Jefferson was a deist and produced his own version of the Bible ...

At first, Canadians just shook their collective heads when United States President Donald Trump suggested Canada become the ...

William Mullins and his family boarded the Mayflower at Rotherhithe on the south bank of the Thames in east London in July 1620 along with some 60 fellow pilgrims. The steps down to the jetty used by ...

According to the Library of Congress, John Quincy Adams took the oath of office on a law book instead of the Bible during his inauguration in 1825. In a diary entry he explained that the gesture ...

John Adams’s loss to Thomas Jefferson in the presidential election of 1800 was a great disappointment for Adams as he felt he ...

The two presidents in the 1800s were born near Charlotte but carried out their political careers in Tennessee.

However, this inauguration moment differed from the usual ceremony ... some presidents have chosen alternative methods during their swearing-in. For example, in 1825, John Quincy Adams used a law book ...