Economic historians usually are mistaken when looking at the causes of the Panic of 1857. Douglas E. French sets the record straight.

History's lesson is clear—political deals on fundamental human rights don't preserve the Union, they poison it. Two failed presidents proved that appeasement of racism only deepens division.

Robert Kraft was the canary in the Canton coal mine when he was blocked with Spygate and Deflategate used as part of the justification.

The Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday approved a bill that would allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty for those ...

Commentary: Chief Justice John Roberts has tried for years to weaken the Voting Rights Act. With a coming Supreme Court decision, he may finally get his wish.

They’ve made it incredibly difficult to sue federal officers for abuse of power, no matter how egregious,” says David Gans, a ...

The so-called ‘Golden Circle’ was to be an empire of slave-owning states stretching from the Deep South of the US, across ...

Birthright citizenship—the principle that anyone born on American soil is a citizen—has deep roots in English common law and was applied in the Colonial era and early years of the American republic.

Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) discusses the role of race in politics in America’s past and present, his warning for younger ...

If Aadhaar-based digital injustice, slavery and totalitarianism are not wrong, nothing is wrong. The question—‘Are we all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chief Justice John Roberts has never had much use for legal scholarship, but a new article about birthright citizenship may well ...

More than 5,000 people gathered at the University of Rhode Island on Oct. 5, 1966, to hear the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...