The failed attempts of Gabriel's Rebellion in 1800 and Denmark Vesey's Plot in 1822 were followed by Nat Turner's bloody revolt in 1831. Fear among slaveholders in the aftermath led to more ...

It tended to degrade the meaning of liberty itself.... Was a civil war inevitable over slavery in America? No. A war was not necessarily inevitable over slavery in America, but a deep conflict ...

Journal Editorial Report: A hurricane, dock strike and Mideast war collide. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images We have been thinking about disasters, about Hurricane Helene and North Carolina, about ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

No matter where you turned, you couldn’t ignore reality. America was the epicenter of a racial reckoning. Within days, people joined more than 10,000 demonstrations nationwide and a movement to ...

In 1831, a coalition of Black leaders and white abolitionists proposed the nation's first African American college in New Haven, Connecticut, in an attempt to open a door to education that was ...

Fracking will continue, but electric-vehicle mandates might not. She’ll keep sending military aid to Ukraine and defend America and Israel against Iran. Her legislative agenda will use the tax ...

Millions of U.S. voters are set to cast their ballots Tuesday as they decide whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will be the country’s next leader. 1 A person ...

Trump. Crowded around a table in a dimly lit room, the four men, hosts of the popular podcast “Pod Save America,” were trying to process what they had just seen — not only for themselves but ...

A slew of legal claims have been issued against event organisers in the wake of the chaos which engulfed July's showpiece final Melanie Anzidei Bolivia are thriving at high altitude in their new ...

It was named in part for Quasimodo, the bellringer in Victor Hugo's 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame." Hence the male gender some have attributed to Quasi. Quasi first graced - or haunted ...