Modern progressives believe that one can only be loyal to one‘s nation by being loyal to the central government. Yet, ...

Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...

The Politics of Presidential Mercy,” Jeffrey Toobin, a CNN legal commentator and contributing writer for the New York Times’s ...

What makes a “bad” President of the United States? These 10, including the current incumbent, have all had their faults, ...

That’s actually a central thesis of Du Bois’ magnum opus, Black Reconstruction, the history of how newly emancipated Blacks and their Republican allies tried to expand our democracy, only to fall ...

This is the third in a series of columns about Black history as the nation observes Black History Month. The slaves who ...

On Presidents Day, we celebrate the Father of America and his indelible mark on history. Our nation’s first president was born near Popes Creek, Virginia, on February 11, 1731. That date might have ...

1940—Smokey Robinson is born William Robinson in Detroit, Mich. He formed “The Miracles” in 1955 while still in high school. With his voice and poetry of song, Robinson led The Miracles as the group ...

This story was developed in partnership with students from Dorsey High School as part of an internship program with the ...

The Austin City Council has approved going forward with four street reconstruction projects for this year following public ...

To a degree possibly unprecedented in the country’s nearly 250 years, President Trump is barreling through the executive ...

Historians have been ranking presidents in surveys since Arthur Schlesinger Sr.’s first such study appeared in Life magazine ...