What will be former President Joe Biden’s legacy? How will Americans in the future consider his four years in office? And what about Donald Trump? Every American president lands in the history books.

For the past 70 years, Gallup has measured US presidents' approval ratings. Bill Clinton had the highest approval ratings at the time he left the Oval Office. Donald Trump's first-term rating is tied ...

A statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. Historians consistently have given Lincoln, the Great Emancipator, their highest ...

Nearly 100 historians and biographers rated past commanders in chief on 10 leadership qualities. Abraham Lincoln was voted the best US president. Donald Trump didn't make the top 25 — he's No. 41.

A new Gallup poll measured how Americans feel about the five living U.S. presidents. Barack Obama leads with the highest favorability, while Joe Biden ranks the lowest. Donald Trump, George W. Bush, ...

Three months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s approval rating is lower than at any point in the term of one president he’s referred to as the “worst president in history.” The 47th ...

In 1948, the Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. asked his colleagues in the history and government departments to rate 29 presidents. His son, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. repeated the exercise for ...

Lincoln finished first in a ranking by historians of the 42 former White House occupants. The survey was released over Presidents Day weekend. The news wasn't quite as good for th ...

To explore the pre-presidency backgrounds of previous Commanders-in-Chief, Graphiq politics site InsideGov ranked all 43 presidents from the least to most experienced. In the list, experience includes ...