The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

Civic leaders in the region believe that side efforts are necessary to rebuild after the wildfires. They just can’t settle on ...

President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff says that a three to five year timeline for reconstruction of Gaza, ...

Trump administration officials say the five-year timeline laid out in later phases of a peace deal between Israel and Hamas ...

As the title suggests, this is a series about migrants whose movements across our land ended up being the most consequential ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

President Trump has floated the idea that people in Gaza should relocate during the eventual post-war reconstruction efforts.

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to ...

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the meaning of the 14th Amendment to end “birthright ...

Peter R. Kolchin, Henry Clay Reed Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware and recipient of the University's Francis Alison Award, died at home on Jan. 13, 2025. The cause of death ...

Leaders of both parties honored 100 Black lawmakers from the Reconstruction era, then turned to modern battles over ...