The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.

Bush donned a flight suit and gave his premature "Mission Accomplished" speech on an aircraft carrier, Republicans were ...

the Spanish Civil War and the dawn of the Cold War. He surveys “the breadth of the global zoo industry” with material that has “a not-so-subtle American bias.” (Mr. Kinder includes ...

And so Trump has opened up a trapdoor beneath the American legal system. This trapdoor is wide enough to swallow the entire ...

In just a few short months, the Trump administration has ousted countless career officials from the federal government.

Congress enacted 42 tariff laws between 1789 and 1916. The Tariff Act of 1789 was three pages long. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 (the last enacted tariff before Congress delegated tariff-setting ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

Donald Trump is lashing out at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell after he has refused to cut interest rates and urged his ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

A conversation with legal historian Mary Ziegler on her new book about the anti-abortion movement’s fight to establish ...