The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

The vice president envisions a world of tiered citizenship, where entry depends on heritage and status rests on obedience.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a ...

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According to those who keep track of such things, at least 60,000 books have been published about the Civil War.

Using unpublished letters and documents, little-known accounts from Civil War-era newspapers, and Congressional memoirs and correspondence, Guelzo tells the story of the complicated web of statesmen, ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing collection of rare documents — spending a combined $18.1 million for items signed ...

Founded by Abraham Lincoln and others fighting to bring down the abomination of slavery, that 1850s anti-slavery Republican party paved the way for Lincoln to win the presidency against Democrats ...

William Harvey Carney, born in slavery, was the hero of the Battle of Battery Wagner, fought in South Carolina in 1863.

On Friday, during an interview on CNBC, the House speaker, Mike Johnson, claimed that President Trump was among the most ...

President Donald Trump was visibly impressed by how well Liberian President Joseph Boakai spoke English, the West Africa ...