Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ...

Trump sent National Guard troops to California amid days of protesting federal immigration raids. Here's what's usual, and ...

It has been 60 years since a president has deployed the National Guard without the cooperation of a governor.The last time ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

The National Guard was also called during the 1992 L.A. riots and the unrest that followed Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. Trump’s order was unlike any other.

Donald Trump said "we are going to have troops everywhere" as ICE protests in LA continued. The National Guard will be sent ...

Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from a state’s ...

As a historian invited to speak before Congress, I expected to converse with serious people. That's not what happened.

Dr Don Curtis, who was in the emergency room where JFK was brought following his assassination, explained his theories as to ...

Longtime Democrat from Montgomery served in Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and continued to work nationally and ...

President Trump's controversial decision to accept a luxury jetliner from Qatar and turn it into Air Force One is the latest ...