A rare letter from New York Post founder Alexander Hamilton to James Madison sold this week for $113,850, surging past the original estimate of up to $10,000. The 1790 handwritten missive from America ...

George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the New York ...

These are the times that try men’s quotation dictionaries. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), announcing the drafting of impeachment articles, brought out all the big muskets this week. She quoted ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (TNS) — Alexander Hamilton never visited the home of archrival Thomas Jefferson. But the nation’s first Treasury secretary — and namesake of the hit musical — rules the house ...