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On April 15, 1789, the Gazette of the United States finally started printing as a semiweekly [citation needed] newspaper, [11] just in time for President Washington's inauguration later the same month. [12] The paper's first government printing contract was signed in July 1789, later than expected. [13]
The Public Papers of the Presidents series was begun in 1957 in response to a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission. An extensive compilation of messages and papers of the presidents covering the period 1789 to 1897 was assembled by James D. Richardson and published under congressional authority between 1896 and 1899.
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] The incumbent president is Donald Trump , who assumed office on January 20, 2025 . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Since the office was established in 1789, 45 men have served in 47 presidencies; the discrepancy arises because of Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump, who were ...
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (/ h ɜːr s t /; [1] April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician who developed the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications.
The New England Courant, the 7 August 1721 front page. It was James Franklin (1697–1735), Benjamin Franklin's older brother, who first made a news sheet something more than a garbled mass of stale items, "taken from the Gazette and other Public Prints of London" some six months late.
Here’s what the Star-Telegram’s front pages looked like when President Kennedy came to Fort Worth and then was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
President George W. Bush: The 43rd president focused on unity in his first inaugural address, asking the nation to live up to the common calling of "civility." In the wake of a contentious 2000 ...
Paper is a thin nonwoven material traditionally made from a combination of milled plant and textile fibres. The first paper-like plant-based writing sheet was papyrus in Egypt, but the first true papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 AD), traditionally attributed to the court official Cai Lun.