James Buchanan served as President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. The Union was torn asunder and it was now up to ...

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under construction at the time. The foreground area was actually a stone yard that had been ...

The inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with something new to Washington parades: floats. There was the “Goddess of ...

Legacy: Generally, James Buchanan is regarded as the worst American president. Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed ...

He was one of three US presidents with an Irish born parent. The 11th president, James Knox Polk, and 15th president, James Buchanan, both had Ulster roots. Polk’s ancestors came from Co Derry ...

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States, replacing Lancaster’s James Buchanan. At noon on March 4 — inauguration day ...

Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the ... One implication of the court's decision was that slavery could not be excluded from any U.S. territories. Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 ...

He was 36 when he took office in 1857 as James Buchanan’s vice president. However, JD Vance will be the third youngest person to become vice president at 40 years old, per U.S. News & World Report.

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan ... would give the United States much easier access to markets in the Far East. In a letter to President Hayes six years earlier ...

With the rise of partisan gerrymandering of North Carolina’s General Assembly and congressional districts, the lament that ...

This is not about James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, this is about the economist James Buchanan, the leading figure in public choice theory. The connection to politics, however, ...