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 ...

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under ...

More would follow and eventually become the Confederate States of America. James Buchanan served as President of the United ...

President-elect James Buchanan had no idea what was happening to his body. But political Washington had its suspicions.

Buchanan presided over the dissolution of ... All of these clumsy coercive activities increased international enmity towards the United States. "I had hoped for the nomination in 1844, again ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan Eads propped himself ... in all likelihood they knew he was dying. Back in the United States, a whirlwind of press was swirling ...

While I like to think I was always a whiskey snob, I was once a young person with a budget. I still did my best to drink proper whiskey, and so I was on the lookout for something outside of the ...

Buchanan, like Trump, defends the United States and its history. What made the United States exceptional was not only its history and ideals, but also the Christian foundation of the nation.

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, ...