COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.

This week marks the anniversary of the greatest battle in the United States’ Civil War. That battle, at Gettysburg, was ...

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

Jeannine Hill Fletcher teaches theology at Fordham University and is author of the forthcoming Grace of the Ghosts: A ...

That got me thinking that Thoreau should be the fourth instalment of my Historical Heroes series wherein I take admirable ...

Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it three ...

The Fourth of July arrived and we celebrated one more day of our independence. And what better way to do it than living great stories that speak of our honor and patriotism through ...

Trump's directive banning signage he would deem unpatriotic has left free speech advocates in disbelief, wondering how park ...

For Fourth of July, Lincoln is the perfect watch as you watch the man's life who built the roots of America and it's strength ...

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...

Mexico ruling party defeated; composer Shostakovich finishes final work; North Korean troops in first combat with US forces; ...