Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

But in 1861, the American Union fell apart ... At the end of the civil war, the United States defeated the Confederate States and took control of the 11 states which were lost, and with the ...

In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of writing columns ...

Coming to terms with this reality will allow us to strengthen and maximize the full power and potential of our nation—the one dedicated to the proposition of equality.

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

The American Civil War (1861–1865) remains one of the most defining chapters in the nation’s past, forging our modern ...

Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

The most consequential of Trump's three victories at the court last year was a ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice ...

Harriet Tubman has long been known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad leading enslaved Black people to freedom. Less ...