Roger Taney was born in 1777 to a wealthy Maryland family that owned slaves. Early in his career, he called slavery a “blot ...

Manassas National Battlefield Park preserves over 5,000 acres of Virginia countryside and is the site of some of the blo ...

On Monday, faith leaders including Bishop William Barber led demonstrations in 11 southern states to protest President ...

Proposed slavery and segregation exhibit incites legal fight over Confederate legacy and whitewashed nostalgia.

Deb lived long enough to watch Trump run for president the first time, in 2015—to watch as Trump built a political base by ...

From the Anti-Masons to Elon Musk's new America Party, here's a look at how third parties have made their mark through American history.

Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has defended violent immigration raids targeting cannabis farms in California, where masked federal agents discovered allegedly undocumented minors who are ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...