When we think of the American Civil War, the division between Americans in the North and the South comes to mind. But it ...

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

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President Trump imposes sanctions on the International Criminal Court for investigating Israel, citing illegitimate actions and abuse of power.

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called ...

The Education Department says it is investigating potential civil rights violations at two universities and a high school ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...