By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a billion ... Slavery is not abolished in Washington, D.C. until 1862. 1838: The Anti-Slavery Convention of American ...

An overhead view of how close an alleged assailant came to the former president at his West Palm Beach golf club.

The mean of the previous seventeen Summers is 13.86 inches, so that the quantity in 1862 is about 132 per cent. above the mean, or nearly 2 1/3 times the average. This is certainly a very ...

The US federal government is the nation's largest landlord and still owns 28 percent of the land in the US. The time has come ...

AP Photo Union troops charge across the Burnside bridge over Antietam Creek in the third and final day of the Battle of ...

Among the weathered and once-cracked headstones in Michigan’s historic Brighton Village Cemetery, the dual grave markers for ...

With maps and graphics flashing on movie theater-sized screens, top U.S. Army commanders monitored in real time a scenario of ...

The 10-foot-wide house, which last sold for $1.25 million, is believed to have been built due to a dispute between brothers.

The act protected the rights of authors to publish “maps, charts, and books” for a ... Strictly speaking, a work was only protected by US copyright law if it had a copyright notice, which ...

Casey Cep on Ronald E. Walters of the National Cemetery Administration.

Mexicans in Chicago and around the world will celebrate Mexican Independence Day -- Mexico's independence from Spain -- with ...

One of the smallest countries in Europe and the world, popular with tourists from different regions, has experienced an acute ...