The driving force on Capitol Hill is cowardice, as both GOPers and Dems confess to fear of violence. It wasn't always that ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

History can be cruel. Charles Sumner, the great abolitionist senator from Massachusetts, is remembered only for being beaten ...

Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that ...

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

The answer is — and it’s not going to be a pleasant answer — the answer is that the violence ends if it boils over into a ...

Navy Pier, of course, is a lot more than 30 years old. It first opened as Municipal Pier in 1916 — 109 years ago. But before ...

The answer is—and it’s not going to be a pleasant answer—the answer is that the violence ends if it boils over into a ...

The immortal catalogue of national crimes just got one entry fatter.

Theirs wasn’t the most famous duel in American history. But David Terry’s murder of his friend turned rival David Broderick ...

The Scranton School District’s superintendent recently recommended a pause on any potential school closures or consolidations ...

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposes defunding the move of the District of Columbia Archives to the University of the District ...