Carl M. Cannon

America's first income tax was signed into law by its first Republican president on Aug. 5, 1861. With a massive number of troops mustered in response to the attack on Fort Sumter,...

Today's words to remember come from James A. Garfield, the 20th U.S. president. James A. Garfield didn't seek -- and didn't particularly want -- the 1880 Republican Party...

On this date in 1865, Jefferson Davis was attending Sunday services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Grace Street in Richmond when he received word that Petersburg had fallen. The...

Friday is also the day of the week when I pass along a quotation meant to be uplifting or informative. Today's quote is the latter, but not the former, and it comes from the...

Every five years, I write an elegy to a famous poem about war. Barack Obama figures in this tradition, too: It started 10 years ago when he placed a wreath at Flanders Field...

It's Friday, the day of the week when I pass along a quotation intended to be uplifting or educational. Today's words of enlightenment come from a high school student I've never met...

Forty-five years ago today, future vice president Albert Gore Jr. stood in the well of the House of Representatives to discuss an innovative development in television programming....

Another State of the Union address is in the books. These have been partisan affairs for decades, but in last night's speech Joe Biden made no pretext that this was anything but a...

In mid-August 1790, the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, sent a letter to George Washington, welcoming the president to the city. Written by...

On this date in 1945, the U.S. Marines raised the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi on the island on Iwo Jima. Captured on film by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, the...

Good morning, it's Tuesday, Feb. 20. Sixty-two years ago today, at 8:35 a.m., United States Marine Corps Lt. Col. John Glenn placed a phone call to his wife, Annie,...

It's Tuesday Feb. 6. I know it's Super Bowl week, and what I'm about to say is heresy to some people (maybe even me, since I grew up as a San Francisco 49ers fan), but it's only...

It's the first Friday in February, "Groundhog Day," and the day of week when I share quotations intended to be informative or uplifting. Today's words of wisdom come from Abraham...

It's Friday, an unseasonably warm day for late January here on the East Coast. It's also the day of week when I share quotations intended to be informative or uplifting. Today's...

Following tradition, local residents voted this morning in the tiny New Hampshire village of Dixville Notch just after the clock struck midnight -- the first Americans to cast...

Good morning. It's snowing in Washington, D.C., as I write these words -- just as it was 63 years ago when John Fitzgerald Kennedy prepared to take the oath of office as the 35th...

Well, that was anticlimactic. In America's favorite sport (pro football), five of the six games played the first weekend of playoffs were blowouts. As if on cue, in the nation's...

It's the beginning of a three-day weekend that culminates with the Iowa Republican caucuses. The latest polls you'll find here, all of which show a looming Donald Trump landslide....

It's Jan. 9, 2024, just six days from the Iowa caucuses. If that snuck up on you, you're not alone, and there are several reasons for it -- four that come to mind readily. The first...

We are just 10 days from the 2024 Iowa presidential caucuses and it's also Friday, the day of week when I share a quotation intended to be informative or uplifting. This morning's...