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Lincoln was, as usual, astute. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by Christians convinced that God abhorred ...

Wikimedia Commons/Middleton, Strobridge & Co., lithographer; Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874, artist The 47-day Siege of ...

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

The last few months have been so crazy that it’s easy to forget that America’s sixth-generation fighter is numbered, at least ...

There's a good chance a transgender person helped pioneer a medical procedure you've had, or helped write the score to your favorite movie.