Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register as Ulysses Simpson Grant, he eagerly ...

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

Rep. Andy Ogles is pushing a new amendment to the Constitution that would allow a president three terms in office.

A Tennessee representative has introduced a resolution that would allow President Donald Trump to serve a third term. Rep.

What ‍rabbi ‍spoke ‍at ‍a ‍presidential ‍inauguration ‍and ‍then ‍at ‍a ‍later ‍time ‍criticized ‍that ‍President? [Mark D. Zimmerman] ...

Roosevelt had such a great experience, that he asked for a service to be held on each first anniversary of his inauguration. President Harry Truman decided to follow Roosevelt’s example and the ...

FDR died three months later and was succeeded by Harry S. Truman. In 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his presidency with inauguration ceremonies on the newly renovated east front of the Capitol.

William Rufus King had been vice president for forty-five days when he died in office. Harry Truman had been vice president for eighty-two days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt died at the Little White ...

Harry Truman never wanted to be president. He got the job anyway when Franklin Roosevelt died in April 1945. FDR was a hard act to follow, and Truman was largely unknown outside his home state.

Second, presidents sometimes surprise us. Few people had high expectations of Harry S. Truman when he became president on the death of Roosevelt. Truman was the only president in the 20th century ...

At noon today, Monday, Jan. 20, (which is also MLK Day) Donald Trump will become the 47th President of the United States. But when will he move back into the White House? Will he live there at all ...

From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jill Biden ... gown that was embroidered with more than 2,000 rhinestones. When President Harry Truman, far right, took the oath of office for a second term in 1949 ...