Follow the latest news and live updates as Howard Lutnick is sworn in to Donald Trump's Cabinet, the president signs more ...

During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

On February 21, 2025, a series of three public sculptures created by Molly Gochman were unveiled at the newly renamed Memphis ...

Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

"I want young people to see themselves as worthy of being immortalized in art—a recognition that transcends time," Ballon ...

But for three bloody years, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has delivered exactly that. Hundreds of thousands of Russians and ...

Because federal troops had been stationed in Austin after the Civil War, many formerly enslaved Black Americans found a safe place to raise their families in Austin.

Lucas Samaras lived and worked on the 62nd floor of a Midtown building, transforming the space into a creative retreat unlike ...

Over the last 15 years, the Middle East has been racked by war, destruction, and displacement. Hundreds of thousands of ...

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

“Birthright citizenship obviously doesn't apply in case of war or invasion,” Judge Ho told Reason magazine. “No one to my knowledge has ever argued that the children of invading aliens are entitled to ...

President Andrew Johnson signed the first official Department of Education into law. Although it was not a cabinet level ...