James Buchanan served as President of the United States from 1857 to 1861. The Union was torn asunder and it was now up to ...

The image captured crowds of onlookers standing outside the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol—which was still under construction at the time. The foreground area was actually a stone yard that had been ...

Legacy: Generally, James Buchanan is regarded as the worst American president. Though it is hard to know what he could have done during the “Secession Winter” of 1860–61 (when the Confederacy formed ...

Buchanan presided over the dissolution of ... All of these clumsy coercive activities increased international enmity towards the United States. "I had hoped for the nomination in 1844, again ...

President-elect James Buchanan had no idea what was happening to his body. But political Washington had its suspicions.

On a windy day in the late winter of 1861, Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th president of the United States, replacing Lancaster’s James Buchanan. At noon on March 4 — inauguration day ...

In the spring of 1887, worn and frail, the engineer James Buchanan ... would give the United States much easier access to markets in the Far East. In a letter to President Hayes six years earlier ...

In the aftermath of James Buchanan’s inauguration, America became obsessed: Was the fatal illness called the “Buchanan Grip” an assassination attempt? Or just a disease-ridden hotel?

This is not about James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States, this is about the economist James Buchanan, the leading figure in public choice theory. The connection to politics, however, ...