Common Sense was a provocation in 1776. Maybe it’s the provocation we need now. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, ...

As Americans gather next Monday to celebrate the legacy of the great martyred civil rights and social justice leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a time ...

Abraham Lincoln, America's 16th President, guided the nation through its most challenging period, the Civil War. He ...

It was no accident that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. That act shifted the meaning of ...

This story was originally published in October 2025. In January 2026, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the ...

While both parties are jockeying for an edge in this year's battle for the House, some states are already setting their ...

After four bloody years and over 700,000 deaths, the Confederacy surrendered. More than four million enslaved persons were ...

Conservatives may protest at first, but ultimately, they bring up the progressive rear to defend, and indeed celebrate, the ...

Republicans love to call themselves the “Party of Lincoln,” and also claim adherence to conservative principles. However, ...

Ilhan Omar is spreading dangerous neo-Confederate rhetoric demonizing ICE, in the same way the pre-war South sought to ...

Slave trading helped Southerners survive and fight the Civil War, as well as to build the future for which they fought. The ...