It was signed into law by a president who had won election in one of the largest landslides in American history. It was ...

As the USA celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a leading historian talks about why it ...

Barney Frank, the longtime Democratic congressman and leading liberal who brought new visibility to gay rights and crafted ...

Thirty years ago, a Cuban fighter jet shot down two civilian planes operated by Florida-based exile group Brothers to the ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns writes about the Founding Fathers' notion of citizenship and how democracy demands participation and engagement.

It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in ...

Welles Crowther, the Boston College graduate remembered as "The Man in the Red Bandana" for his heroism during the 9/11 attacks, will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

Cuba shot down two Brothers to the Rescue U.S. civilian planes in 1996, killing four Cuban Americans and drawing swift ...

Tennessee plans to execute Mr. Carruthers tomorrow while sitting on untested DNA and fingerprint evidence that could exonerate him.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's original 1903 Flyer made history. But it took them another two years, among crashes and technical ...