Wherefore the citizens of Seattle in a mass meeting assembled that we pledge anew our loyalty and devotion to the government of the United States,” UW President Henry Suzzallo said in his address to 7 ...

Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader and Civil War officer, has been posthumously admitted to the New York State Bar. The ...

Members of the Lebanese Catholic diaspora hope the new pontiff will continue his papal predecessors’ solidarity with the ...

The park service has long tried to present a wide range of perspectives on historical events. The Trump administration could ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

NEW YORK – When he first came to the United States after escaping civil war in Sierra Leone and spending almost a decade in a refugee camp, Dauda Sesay had no idea he could become a citizen. But he ...

One hundred years ago, the Lutheran University Association purchased a struggling Valparaiso University and made it what it ...

Ken Burns' latest docuseries, "The American Revolution," explores the United States' bloody and hardwon origin story.

NEW YORK — When he first came to the United States after escaping civil war in Sierra Leone and spending almost a decade in a refugee camp, Dauda Sesay had no idea he could become a citizen. But he wa ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...