President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

North Huntingdon native Colleen Shogan said she was fired Friday night from her job as archivist of the United States without ...

Street Museum in downtown is housed in one of Shreveport’s oldest buildings that’s historically been associated with various ...

James Madison suggested the idea of developing a congressional library at the new capital Washington City. Before that, the capital was located in Philadelphia and New York City.

According to the Law Library of Congress and the Central Intelligence Agency, 33 countries offer unconditional birthright citizenship similar to the United States. They include: ...

“On Tuesday, January 21, the United States Capitol Police (USCP ... Northeast, where the Library of Congress and US Supreme Court building are located. That man, later identified as James ...

A Massachusetts man was discovered to be carrying a gun after attending a tour of the United States Capitol and leaving the nearby Library of Congress on Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds for and build the United States Holocaust ...

Just over a quarter (26%) of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other ... of Delaware are the first Black senators to represent their respective states in the chamber.

By Robert Jimison Reporting from the Capitol A small contingent of Republicans in Congress on Tuesday criticized President Donald Trump’s pardons of more than 1,500 people charged for their ...

"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Mr. Garvey as 'the first man of color in the history of the United States to ... circa, 1920. Library of Congress "Exactly 101 years ago, Mr. Garvey was ...