William Plumer News Today

Newspaper readers in 1799 were accustomed to finding a variety of items for sale on the front page. On this day, items from the late William Plumer’s estate were going

Every year in honor of Presidents Day, I write a list of fun facts about one of our nation’s presidents (going in order) because, in general, the only non-living presidents whose contributions to American culture people remember are Washington, Lincoln, and that time Taft got stuck in his bathtub. This year, we’re up to our […]

It is the wisdom of God to bring good out of evil. The ultimate example of that is the Son of God being put to death by men, but God accomplishing the salvation of sinners through it.

There is plenty we know about America's past presidents. These men all served their country for four (or more) years in the highest office in the land and

Thomas Jefferson's cherished principle of religious freedom must be preserved in America, Monticello historian John A. Ragosta writes in a guest column.

We must remember the purpose of a VP is clear cut:  Should something happen to a lawfully elected president (assassination, crippling health issues, natural passing away), the VP must be someone who can immediately step into the job of being America’s president. Nothing personal, but Tucker Carslon

WHEN NEW HAMPSHIRE seized the assets of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1816, the school’s board of trustees refused to give up. This takeover of the school to

IN1754, Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister in Lebanon, Connecticut, organized a small charity school to train young Native American and White men as ministers and teachers.

Daniel Webster was born in 1782 in Salisbury, New Hampshire, in a section of town that later became part of Franklin. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, and graduated

Congressman Daniel Webster should have arrived in Washington, D.C. to begin his second term in office as soon as the House of Representatives convened on Dec. 4, 1815. However, the