In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Syrian Kurds are set to demand a federal system in post-Assad Syria that would allow regional autonomy and security forces, a ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames ...

Kenneth B. Morris Jr.’s family treasures have always been American treasures. Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass, and great-great-grandson of ...

Sitting at her desk in her office, Queenter Mbori leans forward, eyes bright with purpose. "When I was born, my father hoped for a son," she reveals with a knowing smile. "But what he got instead was ...

The university’s declaration of independence from the Trump administration could be a key moment for an embattled academia, ...

The U.S. will be celebrating next year, marking our daring break from Great Britain and the founding of the nation.

In response to this 18th-century vandalism/terrorism/coercion, the British government introduced a series of punitive measures under the Coercive Acts including dissolving the colonial assembly, ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

If there is no trust in the rule of law, the very foundation of our democracy will collapse, Virginia Trial Lawyers ...