By the beginning of the 20th century, the Republican leader had sharply increased tariffs and pursued an expansionist foreign policy.

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

President Trump's recent comments on the D.C. plane crash have sparked outrage, with critics accusing him of using racist ...

Donald Trump's second term reintroduces 'Manifest Destiny,' blending nationalism and religious fervor with territorial ...

A portrait of president Andrew Jackson (1829-37), whose Indian Removal Act spurred what modern historians have in retrospect called the ethnic cleansing or genocide of the tribes, now hangs in the ...

You can tell what kind of conservative a person is by discovering what year he wants to go back to. For Trump, it seems to be ...