In the early 1870s the struggling Bethlehem Iron Company- later Steel- was attempting to make the technological transition ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

So why not counter-protest by becoming president and thereby ensuring your pennies amount to a pound? The kind of pound that ...

A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives are every two years because the Framers of the Constitution wanted them to be close to the people.

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

Slavery wasn’t threatened by Lincoln’s election in 1860, folks; but Southerners feared a high tariff would hurt them economically. Two of the seceding southern states mentioned the tariff in ...

The writer explores the historical journey of racial politics in America, tracing the path from the oppression of Black slaves to the transformative Voting Rights Act of 1965, and explore its lasting ...

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

In 1860, he would fulfill his ambition of winning the Democratic nomination for president, but in the general election he would win only one state—Missouri. In the debates of 1858, Lincoln had ...