Having inherited his mother’s beliefs, Reagan was ever faithful to the Disciples of Christ, whose tenets were often at odds with those of the GOP.

As vital to the success of industrial New England as the mill girls who toiled in the factories were the women who oversaw their lodging.

Until the Civil War, US Army officers relied on enslaved servants even while serving in “free states.”

Born a free Black man, William Still kept the books and managed the money for the Philadelphia branch of the Underground Railroad.

Many Native American communities were consensus democracies that survived for generations because of careful attention to checking and balancing power.

The Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Revolutionary War and the hostilities between Great Britain and the newly independent United States—at least temporarily.

For centuries, a fork-tailed mythical creature that lurks in the pinelands of the Garden State has served as a reminder of the horrors that result when reproductive freedoms are destroyed.

Alexander Hamilton’s anonymous essay challenged the voting citizens of New York to hold fast to the truth when deciding to ratify (or not) the US Constitution.

Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies.

The “compromise” attempted to answer the question of whether the Missouri territory would be admitted to the Union as a “slave” or “free” state.