The push for a national Martin Luther King holiday prompted a fierce political tug-of-war, on campus and off.

Over the course of the nineteenth century policing became increasingly professionalized.

The age when we grow up and begin our adult lives has changed over the years.

In a treaty signed in Paris on April 30, France swapped 828,000 square miles of North America to the U.S. for $15 million.

Heather Gilligan explores the impact of racism on the fight towards universal health care.