The start of the Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence, can be traced to one manuscript. WEMU’s Caroline ...

Only 8 percent of newcomers were women. Library of Congress At 4 in the morning on March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward signed a treaty buying Russian America—that is, Alaska—for ...

The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. Since the ratification ...

Library of Congress "It is the loveliest study ... she moved into an Auburn house provided by her friend William Seward, a passionate abolitionist and secretary of state for both Lincoln and ...

This interpretation, whose name comes from an 1858 address by William Seward, interprets the Civil War as unavoidable due to the irreconcilable differences of political economy, culture ...

“We will engage in a competition for the virgin soil of Kansas,” the abolitionist William Seward told the Senate ... Things didn’t fare any better in the halls of Congress. There, dignity, reason, ...

The Library holds a diverse range of material for Staffordshire ... Works of Staffordshire authors including both fiction and non-fiction including Izaak Walton, Anne Seward, Samuel Johnson, Arnold ...

The White House terminated U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter two days after firing the Librarian of Congress.

President Donald Trump fired Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, via email at 6:56 p.m. ET on May 8, 2025. Critics are ...