The Supreme Court will not decide right now whether Louisiana violated the Constitution when it enacted a congressional map ...

The justices asked that the case, which has implications for the political power of Black voters, be reargued next term.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided to delay its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case later. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court did not take action in the fight over Louisiana’s congressional map Friday. Instead, the justices announced Friday that they’ll hear additional arguments in the case during ...

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

Louisiana argued that it was caught in an impossible position: At first, a federal court ruled that the state had likely ...

Letter by General U.S. Grant (1862), American Civil War, facsimile Letter by General Ulysses S. Grant with the demand "unconditional surrender" to General Simon Bolivar Buckner during the Battle of ...

Award-winning Civil War historian William Marvel looks at the seeming revival of Confederate military efforts in the first half of 1864, despite devastating reverses incurred during the previous year, ...