Donald Trump has promised to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on “all countries” today. Tariffs on many vehicles and auto parts ...

The meeting soon adjourned, and the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued that ... And the pen with which Lincoln signed the final document belongs to the Massachusetts Historical ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...

Once upon a time (c’mon Nacca, you gotta be kidding!) there was a restaurant owner whose business was starving for customers.

For a leader so comfortable in the mayhem of social media, the executive order, with all its trappings of officialdom, is an oddly retro format. But it’s a revealing one. What Twitter was for Trump’s ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

“Even after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, he continued to declare ... said she reviewed his personal letters and other documents that show Hamilton purchased slaves for his household.

Illinois Republican Abraham Lincoln authored the Emancipation Proclamation ... The exhibit goes on to document how being treated as enemies took a traumatic toll on those incarcerated, who ...