The US is evacuating non-emergency personnel from oil-rich South Sudan amid concerns that Africa’s youngest nation is again ...

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express ...

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Federal judges hearing Trump administration litigation have increasingly gone beyond the case at hand to reflect on potential ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Nestled in the picturesque Virginia Piedmont region, about 70 miles southwest of Washington D.C., Culpeper is that rare small town that manages to be both frozen in time and completely alive at the ...

I’m certainly not an expert in history, especially about New Hampshire. I remember learning long ago in school that Franklin ...

The assault on public education by the Trump administration cuts across a history of immense struggle to achieve this ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

The story of Buffalo Soldiers riding bicycles 1,900 miles from Montana to Missouri in a post-Civil War military experiment ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, soon to undergo a major renovation, a heart-tugging special exhibit in Skokie explores the ...