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The stories you are going to read here are taken from “American Weather Stories” published by the U.S. Department of Commerce in 1976. If 2013 happened to be an election year we’d be looking forward to Inauguration Day when the new...

Submitted by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog , WHY SHOULD I CARE? Most adult Americans today are unaware of what caused the War of 1812, who started it, what the outcome was, or even who the belligerents were. If I recall correctly, my grade...

Happy Presidents' Day/Washington's Birthday/Washington and Jefferson Day, everybody. Today is a unique holiday, in that we don't really agree on what we're observing. Is it Washington's Birthday? Are we acknowledging the efforts of every President in...

In love and politics alike, absence tends to make the heart grow fonder. As InsideGov looked at how historians and political scientists have ranked U.S. presidents, we found that, in general, perceptions of presidents improved with a bit of distance...