All maps are influenced by the intent and biases of their creator—even those that are striving to be as accurate as possible.

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

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American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery By Richard Kreitner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pages, $32 The central thesis of Richard Kreitner’s Fear No Pharaoh is unsurprising: In ...

A cottonwood tree near Hotel Meade is where vigilantes hanged Sheriff Plummer and his deputies in 1864. You can walk right up ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'America, América: A New History of the New World'.

When Donald Trump revealed the level of trade tariffs that countries around the world would face from the US, nations in South America breathed a sigh of relief. Ten of the 12 states on the ...

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South America’s largest nation will start requiring major emitters in 2026 to submit monitoring plans and report their greenhouse gas emissions to a national oversight body, making it the first ...