When the tide in the Mississippi fell, animal guts ... around the pipes going into the New Orleans city reservoir. In 1867, more than 3,000 people died of cholera in the Crescent City, as ...

All these moves are supposedly justified by the idea that the federal government does not play a legitimate role in education ...

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 160 years ago. There had been four years of terrible conflagration and the loss of thousands of lives. I have chosen to honor Black History Month by featuring two of ...

Gilbert Bates was getting madder by the minute. The 31-year-old farmer was chewing the fat with a neighbor in November 1867.

The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

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The early days of America are often told from the perspective of the East Coast, where George Washington and company forged a ...

Although a total of 100 Black Virginians served in the General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 state constitutional convention, former Confederates then took over the state ...

AP Top 25: Ohio St, Notre Dame Are 1-2 in Final Poll; Mississippi and BYU Ahead of Playoff Teams Ohio State was No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the season ...