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A newly minted $1 coin will feature a woman from the Oneida tribe, Polly Cooper, known for aiding George Washington's army during the Revolutionary War.

Democrats in America have a long and inglorious history of invoking “states’ rights” and shirking federal law.

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees.

Yet the clash in Minneapolis has revealed a cleavage over the meaning of citizenship and constitutional rights perhaps as profound as the one that split the nation in 1861. The fight, now as it was ...

A move is afoot to have a historical marker erected in honor of a Pottsville man who was among the first volunteers to serve ...

Imagine a city that thrived for thousands of years, its streets alive with workshops, markets and the laughter of children, yet that is remembered for a single night of fire. That city is Troy.

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, on the Boston Massacre, and how it changed relations between the colonists and ...

The Minnesota governor warns of a national unraveling.

What was hygiene like during the Civil War? By contemporary standards, it was pretty grim for both Union and Confederate ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...

Joe Foss received the Medal of Honor for his actions as a Marine Corps fighter pilot during the Guadalcanal campaign in 1942 ...