In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

Centreville — Few communities are lucky enough to have a Civil War museum in their midst; Centreville is one of them. The Stuart-Mosby Civil War Cavalry Museum first invited the public in for a ...

The television medium has produced several hit Westerns series throughout history and some of these shows know how to evoke ...

Four decapitated corpses hanging from a bridge are the latest symbol of a civil war tearing apart the violent global drug powerhouse, the Sinaloa Cartel. And the bloodshed has dire implications ...

The CIA’s disguises and forgeries back then were like works of fine art. But the agency in its first few decades was also a ...

Jennifer Cromack discovers a lost 1847 anti-slavery resolution by New England ministers in the American Baptist archive.

Quentin Tarantino is a top-notch director and writer, partially because of his ability to craft continually compelling lead protagonists for his films ...

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the Supreme Court was “stymying one of the country’s great civil rights laws” after it ruled 6–3 that states could defund Planned ...

President Trump’s signature second-term legislative agenda is hitting the courts. His “big, beautiful bill” is a boon for ...

Vox posted an interview with Vox journalist Christian Paz, who’d reported previously that the Democrats were ripe for a grassroots takeover like the alleged one that overtook the GOP. The headline ...