"The state's finally getting recognition for the treasures it has," said Linda Ratchford, 59, who lives in Old New Castle, a few blocks from where Penn first stepped foot in North America in 1682.

Being first means a lot to the Granite State. New Hampshire held its first presidential primary in May 1916 − a week after the Indiana primary − but legislators soon amended state law to hold ...

Woodrow Wilson broke that pattern with his first State of the Union in 1913, near the end of his first year in office. He continued his in-person tradition until a stroke made that impossible in 1919.