In the Jim Crow South, activists became martyrs at the hands of white racists, all for the just cause of using the vote to ...

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Lincoln’s assassination, and the ineffectual leadership of his successor, Andrew Johnson, enabled the Congress to control ...

Using state power to enforce social orthodoxy is always a recipe for disaster. Radical Republican governments in the post-war ...

This election is a chance to unite. Keeping people apart has always been the oxygen that hate needs to survive.

The job is not done and will not be done until every child born in America believes that they have the opportunity to become ...

So the second Trump term will be the last. That may not be much comfort for progressives, but there is one important point to ...

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Two days after the election, President-elect Donald Trump appointed Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff, making her ...

One 1/8-cent sales tax currently benefits improvements to the American Bank Center arena. Under the proposition, city ...

The vote went to the House of Representatives ... agreed to let Hayes be president in return for ending Reconstruction. In a rather nasty contest between Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland ...