Tubman decided she would escape around 1850, after learning she and two of her brothers were to be sold. The siblings left together, but, fearful of what would happen if they were caught, her brothers ...

Backcountry colonists in Camden and Long Bluff, South Carolina helped win the American Revolutionary War by declaring their ...

Millions of years ago, a 10,000-foot-tall volcanic cone stood on the Cascade Ridge near Chinook Pass. Today, Fife’s Peaks are ...

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “ American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism ,” lays ...

On September 17, Lee met General McClellan in the bloodiest single day of fighting in the war and in American history. Union ...

Three of the five groups (Hadley, Berkeley and Copernicus/ECMWF) are very likely to show annual temperatures exceeding 1.5C above pre-industrial levels (defined here as the 1850-1900 period), while ...

With his reelection, Donald Trump now joins Grover Cleveland as only other person elected to a non-consecutive terms as president.

Measure A would double the quarter-cent sales tax for homeless services. Measure G would dramatically shift power within L.A.

There is an alternative narrative of the United States that challenges the vision of it as ‘God’s heavenly city.’ ...

How can America reverse the trend and mitigate risks related to the upcoming election? In a recent Journal of Democracy piece, political violence expert and Freedom House trustee Rachel Kleinfeld and ...

The strength of the sun's ultraviolet (UV) radiation is expressed as a Solar UV Index or Sun Index.The UV Index does not exceed 8 in the UK (8 is rare; 7 may occur on exceptional days, mostly in the ...

"When I was a little tyke in the early '50s, I thought Halloween was all about two things: candy, especially paraffin candy, ...