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Praising Robert E. Lee as a "great general" is just the latest example of the president waxing poetic about the Confederacy. LEWIS CENTER, OH - AUGUST 04: President Donald Trump speaks at a rally to show support for Ohio Republican congressional candidate Troy Balderson on August 4, 2018 in Lewis Center, Ohio.
South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman started an election debate Thursday with a sexual assault joke about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. "I though I was going to be late.
Some bystanders rate Donald Trump America's worst president. But ratings are fluid, as shown by ratings given the last Ohioan in the White House, Marion's Warren G. Harding.
Editor's note: The Illinois Bicentennial series is brought to you by the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors and Illinois Press Association. More than 20 newspapers are creating stories about the state's history, places and key moments in advance of the Bicentennial on Dec. 3, 2018.
A supporter of President Donald Trump heckles CNN Jim Acosta, left, during a Trump rally at the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Fla., Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Trump rallied against Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, saying it's time for Florida to vote him out of office at the rally.
Okay politics has gotten way too serious in the past week with five more primaries and President Trump's summit with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un. Let's lighten up this week and do some fun trivia about presidents and their Father's Day legacies.
"A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him," argued Frederick Douglass in his Autobiography . Touring Cedar Hill, his stately former residence on a bluff in the Anacostia neighborhood of D.C., during his 200th anniversary year allows visitors to see the form and color of this great man's character.
The Republican Party's Lincoln Day event was coming up, and Mary Regula was filling in for her husband, an Ohio politician who had been asked to speak about President Abraham Lincoln. Instead, Regula, a former teacher who had studied American history in college, began researching first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.
On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. ship's time and began sinking.
Born in 1818 in Greensburg, Kentucky, Herndon's parents moved to the frontier of Illinois in 1820. His father was an early businessman in Springfield, building the city's first tavern, which was definitely not its last.
Just in time for Presidents Day, the National Portrait Gallery is throwing a birthday party to celebrate the museum's 50th anniversary and its iconic "America's Presidents" exhibit. Visitors were treated to a look at the new portraits of former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
On January 16, 1865, General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15, granting coastal plantation properties from Savannah, Georgia to the St. John's River in Florida to ex-slaves.
In a memorable scene from the 1986 blockbuster Crocodile Dundee , Paul Hogan and his reporter girlfriend are taking a nighttime "walkabout" in Manhattan when a thug suddenly steps from the shadow and demands their money. Warned that the intruder is brandishing a knife, the cool-as-a-cucumber Dundee says, in his broad Australian accent, "That's nawt a nyfe!" Then, whipping out his own larger, sharper one, he states, " That's a nyfe!" His quip got a big laugh from the audience and the movie thug got the message.
YouTube, owned by Google took a giant dump on America this Thanksgiving Day, posting to Twitter a Teen Vogue video of six teenage Native American girls angrily toppling a Thanksgiving dinner table. The YouTube tweet links to a Teen Vogue video posted to YouTube on Thursday entitled, "Native American Girls Describe the REAL History Behind Thanksgiving".
On Nov. 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States with 39.8 percent of the popular vote in a four-person race. Why all this is interesting now, 157 years later, is that current White House Chief of Staff John Kelly came out recently with the comment that the Civil War began because the sides couldn't compromise.
Trump is winning the statue war With Democrats howling about tearing down statues and supporting violent protesters, Trump is free to run the nation. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2xy8DHq Just last month, Democrats were talking about how they needed to rebrand their party around a positive message.