Wilma Rudolph, an iconic figure in Olympic history, emerged from humble beginnings and significant physical challenges to ...

How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the ...

For years the colonies had flourished in a state of “salutary neglect.” Britain had been content to leave the day-to-day ...

After U.S. states ratified the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920, suffragists shifted their focus to ...

In the wake of a tumultuous presidential election, columnist Alma Rutgers reflects on how casting her first vote in 1964 ...

Rep. Seth Moulton said he is blaming Democrats for being out of touch with Americans for losses in the White House, Senate ...

After refusing to call for an arms embargo, Harris lost to Trump, to the delight of Israel’s right-wing leaders.

We are both proud veterans who served honorably in conflicts overseas; we are also Jews who strongly support the existence of ...

It was the first statewide election since lawmakers cleared the way for persons on probation to take part in elections. Among those casting a vote for the first time in a presidential race was one of ...

Donald Wright Nov 8, 1962; Nashville, TN, USA; Picketers, calling for an end to segregation in places of public accommodation ...

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, ...

Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of immigrants a centerpiece of his plans for a second term, vowing to forcibly remove as many as 20 million people from the country. Historian Ana Raquel ...