Seven months after his call to free the slaves, Emerson hails the Emancipation Proclamation.

From secession to the 'Southern strategy,' the fight over South Carolina’s identity has played out in the flags it flies.

Republicans overcome their divisions to nominate the representative from Wisconsin as Speaker of the House.

More than 300 unexploded bombs are hiding beneath one German city.

Three different parts of the brain control how successfully, accurately, and vividly we remember past events.

Even the most feared white supremacists in the lore of Jim Crow were just regular white men.

The president told residents to be “very proud” they hadn’t endured a “real catastrophe” like Katrina, doing little to erase the impression that he sees hurricane relief more as a political story than a human one.

Two hundred years ago, one of the 19th century’s most significant Americans began his life in anonymity and bondage.

Putin’s Syria intervention saved Assad. But is he ready for what comes next?

Russia and Turkey agreed to create a buffer zone around Idlib, but a confrontation between the two powers still seems inevitable.