to learn why so many people spend their weekends in Confederate uniforms reenacting the Civil War. How much, I wanted to know, does this hobby reflect a passion for history, and how much is it a ...

And at this era’s center, in the campaign that actually led to the war, was a huge, strange, forgotten movement – the Wide Awakes – born from this media landscape and fought out in the newspapers, ...

That amounts to a life sentence for Gerald Goines, who instigated the no-knock raid that killed Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena ...

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

On 4 October 1936, fascists and anti-fascists clashed in London's East End, when Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts marched through ...

The ACLU has successfully defended civil liberties since its founding in 1920 ... Invalidating the repressive actions of Jersey City's anti-union Mayor, "Boss" Hague, the Supreme Court ruled that ...

Being the first Black man to join the Auxiliary Fire Service was just one of several firsts in his extraordinary life.

The following news items are reprinted from the Daily News for the week Oct.3 to Oct. 9, 1924 and are compiled from the newspaper archives.

First the tracks were built east. Then west. Then west some more. Such were the uncertain beginnings of what became the West ...