On July 6, 1994, "Forrest Gump" opened in U.S. theaters, earning actor Tom Hanks his second Oscar for Best Actor.

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A promise to create a third party from billionaire Elon Musk comes with historical difficulties of challenging the current two-party system.

The America250MI Committee has awarded the Jackson County Historical Society a $24,000 grant as part of its “Pathways of ...

In Arizona, a divided state government means elected leaders spend a lot of their time blocking one another’s policy ...

Seven Greek cities claimed to be the birthplace of Homer. Almost as many in the U. S. claim to be the birthplace of the Republican party. When the party came into being in the early 1850's, ...

After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

Three years later, Kelley says, people ask him all the time to run for governor again. In today’s America, where Donald Trump ...

During the 1850s, the southern enslavers were definitely in the driver's seat as far as the national government was concerned. The decade started off with the ...

Popular for his exploits in the War of 1812, President Andrew Jackson in 1832 scoffed at a Supreme Court ruling that did not go his way. When Chief Justice John ...

Now that the Republican Party is in power, we see the government infringing on virtually every aspect of American ...