There was some debate in 1782 about selecting a national bird. The bald eagle was a symbol of strength, courage, freedom and ...

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, ...

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Trump and Harris are in a tight race for the presidency after each spent the final hours of their campaigns trying to win ...

President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving an annual, national holiday. But it was magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ... At the time of emancipation in 1863, the estimated value of ...

Wisconsin Bell argued reimbursement requests under the program are not "claims" for federal funds because the reimbursements ...

On them rested the superior class of people, who took the capital the mudsills produced and used it to move the economy, and even civilization itself, forward. The world could not survive without the ...

The case deals with a whistleblower's claims that a Milwaukee-based unit of telecom giant AT&T routinely overbilled schools and libraries for telecommunications services.

Donald Trump is only the second US president to regain the White House, repeating the feat of Grover Cleveland in the late ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress ... in 1863, the estimated value of all enslaved people was roughly US$13 ...

The legacy of slavery in America remains a divisive issue, with sharp political divides. Some argue that slavery still ...