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

In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, ...

With the Iowa caucuses a mere week away, Nikki Haley is frantically seeking to regain her footing in the GOP presidential race after slavery stumble.

Redemption “means understanding that even racists are made, not born. That capitalism distorts not only economies, but ...

According to those who keep track of such things, at least 60,000 books have been published about the Civil War.

Rankin County residents packed Brandon City Hall to discuss whether a Confederate statue belongs in the Mississippi town's center where a bulk of local traffic flows. But most took stances on whether ...

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

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

Rivalries are the lifeblood of college football. But their history is often inextricably intertwined with the history of our ...

A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The ...

The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

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