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

High court’s decision fuels uncertainty about whether babies born to immigrants lacking legal immigration status will be ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

Last Friday marked 100 years since the Klan held an Independence Day parade, with 3,000 members marching through downtown ...

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Trump’s nomination of Emil Bove to be a federal judge has sparked a larger battle within the conservative legal movement.

The Trump-appointed director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency has ignited an intragovernmental civil war with a series of tweets calling for the resignation of the Federal Reserve chair.

How have our shared visions of American ideals influenced the meaning of patriotism? How has this definition evolved over ...

July 2 stands out as a pivotal day in history, marked by momentous events that have shaped nations, cultures, and the course ...

“The 1776 report,” Civil War historian Kevin Levin wrote,” views students as sponges who are expected to absorb a narrative ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...