In 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the U.S. House of Representatives when a deadlock developed between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. (Adams ended up the winner.) In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln sent his Second Annual Message to Congress, in which he called for the abolition of […]

Editor’s note: The following was written before Tuesday’s announcement that the Question 2 recount request was withdrawn. The recounts for Questions 1 and 2 are almost ready to begin, but there is no significant hope for either opposition campaign in seeing the results of the Nov. 8 election overturned. According to an article in the […]

When I was a preschooler, I lived across the road from Rufus Foster. I still attend church with his widow. One of many memorable things about Mr. Foster was that, as a 19- year-old from the hills of Tennessee, he was at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese sneak attack. December 7 marks three-quarters of a […]