Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Julia Sand wrote to then-vice president Chester A. Arthur, who would become the 21st president of the United States, offering advice on how to be a better man. Arthur read the correspondence and ...

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After President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, California leaders explain the state's unique history with the 14th Amendment.

On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United ... when Chester A. Arthur was sworn ...

On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed The Chinese Exclusion Act that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here ever to become U.S ...

It was important in Cold War America to prove that it was a Christian nation, so a new story was added to the American ...