All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since.

Once Snider was settled back in town, he started working in the bindery department at the German Reformed Publishing House on ...

DECADE OF DISUNION: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War. By Robert W. Merry ... How was the ...

Israeli airstrikes struck Tyre in the south and Beirut’s suburbs, targeting areas around the Lebanese University, Burj ...

North Platte was saddened in 1923 by the death at age 36 of Paul Rolfe “P.R.” Halligan, commander of North Platte's Nebraska National Guard Company E during World War I.

Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

He had experience in Congress as both a representative and senator, and had been secretary of war under President Franklin ...

North Gaza looks like “Stalingrad” thanks to being besiged by Israeli forces, top aid officials have warned, as the United Nations reports that almost no UN assistance has been allowed into the area ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

First responders have recovered the bodies of 30 people killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building south of ...

Wedged right between the north and south of the United States ... From the world’s longest cave system to the site of a ...

Gaza's civil defence agency said 12 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on Thursday on a school housing displaced ...