The United States may lack an official language, but a road trip across the country reveals dozens of different accents and dialects of English that serve as living links to Americans’ ancestors.

This article was updated on Feb. 6 at 2:04 p.m. Shortly after being sworn into office on Jan. 20 for a second term, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship – the ...

Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the history and ...

In Fascism Comes to America, Bruce Kuklick traces the shifting meanings of the term “fascist” from its origins to the present day and how it has, over the years, gradually lost its coherence.

As he later recounted in Harper’s Pictorial History of the War with Spain, “We arrived off that point [Guánica] near daylight on July 25, and the harbor was entered without opposition.

Do as the Romans do In July 1986, the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed in a 5-4 vote in Bowers v. Hardwick the constitutionality of a Georgia anti-sodomy law dating back to 1816.

Despite the proclamation that "all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then ...

Today's demonstrators also have specific changes in mind, often involving divestment from Israel, citing the deaths of more than 34,000 Palestinian people who died in Gaza amid Israel's ...

When people describe the modernist movement as a whole, they broadly reference the steel and glass skyscrapers which dot many of our cities’ skylines, or more specifically, the International ...