He was born in what Boot calls “the twilight of the horse-and-buggy era” and raised in the small-town Midwest ... s leading men in the pre-World War II era. Though his star declined after ...

The history of blackface dates back to the American minstrel shows of the 19th century, in which white performers caricatured ...

NEW YORK — Tim Walz and JD Vance had the same mission on Tuesday night: Sell a national debate audience on their running mates, and do no damage to themselves. Only one of them said that he ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he believes his rival for vice president, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, wants to solve the nation’s immigration crisis, but he questioned whether former President Donald ...

On and on it went at Tuesday night’s debate between Walz and Vance, who met in person for the first time and put on a textbook performance of Midwest nice: feints at consensus serving as ...

Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, back on the campaign trail after his matchup with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, eschewed the debate-stage niceties that marked their relatively cordial meeting and went back on ...

But it was an especially important night for voters from the Midwest. Vice-President Kamala ... I thought the two of them were civil in how they treated each other, which was a good thing to ...

Nervous before combat, the infantry got chatty and revealed deep knowledge of Civil War history. “Of course the war was about slavery,” Confederate Sergeant Matthew Connor said. “Read any st ...