Buchanan presided over the dissolution of the Union. His faith that the legal system would resolve the slavery issue locked him into inaction. Most historians blame Buchanan for hastening the ...

Challenges: At the time of James Buchanan’s election, the Union itself was at stake, as the South was now actively threatening secession with the rise of the Republican Party. The continuing issue of ...

According to historians, James Buchanan Duke came up with the idea of hand-crafting cigarettes (known as pre-rolled tobacco back then) in the 1880s, when he and his brother, Benjamin Duke ...