The legacy of slavery in America remains a divisive issue, with sharp political divides. Some argue that slavery still ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ancestry. In 1860, one year before the Civil War, the market ...

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The divisions among the Anti-Republicans of the Eighth Congressional District having been settled by the withdrawal of the rival candidates, and the nomination of ISAAC C. DELAPLAINE to represent ...

A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could ...

If Americans wanted to thank veterans, they should have voted for the one candidate who hadn’t tried to overthrow our ...

He began studying law and was admitted to the state bar in 1860. When Arkansas seceded from the Union ... In 1868, Arkansas ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

The state peaked at 12 votes from 1912 to 1928, and it had just four at its inaugural presidential election in 1860.

Our Congress debates and our newspapers discuss ... though the uninitiated fail to see any logical sequence from 1789 to 1815 or 1860. If Mr. Bell loves the Constitution, Mr. Breckinridge is ...