William Howard Taft is the only person to serve as both U.S. president and Supreme Court Chief Justice during his career. The ...

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Disgusted at the party’s embrace of Bryanism, traditional Democrats broke off, formed the new National Democratic Party, and ...

The shade of Theodore Roosevelt is grinning ... Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Howard Taft were acutely aware that the Panama Canal would open in the next decade or so; that the canal would ...

Stepping down as agriculture secretary, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is stepping up as the first CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation ...

PhotoQuest//Getty Images On their way to the inauguration, incoming US President William Howard Taft (1857 - 1930) and outgoing US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) ride in a carriage ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president ...

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, "It's all about common sense." ...

The aggressive rhetoric of US President Donald Trump has shocked Panamanians, who see the waterway as a source of enormous ...