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National Guard involvement in presidential inaugurations dates to the Republic’s early years. When George Washington traveled from his home in Mount Vernon, Virginia, local predecessors to the ...

but historian Julian Zelizer has a good piece in The New Republic that offers some much-needed perspective. George W. Bush looked invulnerable in 2004, and two years later the tide had turned ...

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William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the ...

But the early Roman kings, before the republic, moved it to coincide with ... We have been warned since the days of George W. Bush that “lone wolves” would be the biggest terrorist threat ...

After graduating from Harvard, Stefanik worked first on the Domestic Policy Council for President George W ... elected to Congress in U.S. history. Early on in her career, Stefanik, now 40 ...