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This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....

Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...

When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...

Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...

Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop. The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...

Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....

Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominentl...

Short, balding, and soft-spoken, James Madison was overshadowed by many of America’s other, more dynamic Founding Fathers. His list of accomplishme...