Discover who James Madison is. Learn about his early life, his key role in the Federalist Papers & Bill of Rights, and his ...

President Donald Trump 's lawyers referenced the War of 1812 in legal documents related to California Governor Gavin Newsom 's National Guard case. Writing in a response to a U.S. district court ...

On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia ...

On June 1, 1812, President James Madison sent the U.S. Congress his message summing up British warlike activities of the past six months. It was an indictment of Great Britain's ...

Outdoor writer and photographer Corbet Deary is featured regularly in The Sentinel-Record. Today, Deary takes readers on a ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

Tariffs have been a part of the American fabric since 1789. President Trump has placed tariffs at the center of todays debate ...

But the June 1812 vote to go to war only narrowly passed the House and the Senate, and critics condemned "Mr. Madison's War" as a foolhardy adventure, motivated less by crimes at sea than by a ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

President Trump faces a critical, near impossible, decision in the Middle East. And American political traditions are at odds with any path he takes.