Because of the Trump administration's efforts to cut staff and spending, Congress' "power of the purse" has been in the news ...

Barbara Coleman came to see Carpenters’ Hall, the site of the original Continental Congress convening in 1774 and where the ...

Washington, Lincoln and even Millard Fillmore and are among the presidents honored with Denver streets — and one infamous VP.

As Thomas Jefferson’s secretary of state, James Madison inadvertently began a pattern in which this cabinet office position would lead directly to the presidency. This would continue until 1828, with ...

James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution ... sponsored the Bill of Rights. As president, Madison helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party of Jeffersonian ideals.

The nation’s first inaugural ball was held in 1809 for President James Madison and his wife, Dolley, according to the White House Historical Association. At the Liberty Ball — Trump’s second ...

Every president since President James Madison has attended service there. The tradition of starting inauguration with a private service started with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He asked the ...

“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition,” James Madison wrote. President Trump’s ambition has been sweeping and muscular in the first days of his new term, producing less of a ...

James Monroe was the last of the so-called Virginia Dynasty of presidents. Like James Madison, Monroe was secretary of state before becoming president. A spirit of vigorous nationalism known as the ...