Was John Brown a hero or terrorist? The answer is not so simple. In this documentary, Mr. Beat examines the life and times of ...

Saint Helena is a tiny volcanic island more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa. Between 1840 and 1863, the British Royal Navy brought nearly 27,000 Africans from captured illegal slave ships to ...

Philadelphia plans to appeal a decision permitting replacement of historical exhibit panels at the President's House. While ...

The proceedings against 485 members of the international criminal Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang on charges that include ...

The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ...

America has always had a push-pull relationship with its journey toward the full equality that was promised,' state Sen.

Opinion: A too-often overlooked narrative of the American Revolution is the harsh reality that Native Americans faced, writes ...

Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley is describing as “asinine” a suggestion that former colonies pay Britain back for its investment in them.

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Which is better — to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants one mile away?” — the Rev. Mather Byles ...

On July 4, 1826 – the 50 th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence – one of the most amazing coincidences in U.S.