Examines the build-up to the Civil War: slavery, the Missouri Compromise, abolitionism, and key events like the Dred Scott ...

The Trump administration will likely lose those cases, thanks to the strong American tradition of jury resistance.

Bishop sees in the rise of the Republican Party, culminating in Lincoln’s election, the beginning of a Marxist revolution.

Divided UN extends arms embargo on South Sudan as fears of renewed civil war grow The arms embargo, and travel bans and asset freezes on South Sudanese on the U.N. sanctions blacklist, were ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Within minutes of the debate starting, Vice President Kamala Harris raised the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol that marked the culmination of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to ...

Emerging from a period that rocked the United Methodist Church to its core, the Alabama-West Florida UMC Conference gathers in Pensacola.

Trump could be ushering in an era of GOP power. Republican momentum is strong while voters are questioning the Democratic Party's future amid scandals.

William F. Buckley Jr. was the erudite heart of American conservatism. But the political vision that he helped forge was—and remains today—focused less on adhering to principles and more on ferreting ...

The Civil War started because the South could not abide the idea of a Lincoln presidency so with insurrectionist zeal chose violence after what they deemed a lost, “illegitimate,” rights-stealing 1860 ...