Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

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There were no British soldiers in the American colonies for 130 years. Colonists distrusted soldiers due to stories of brutality against civilians by soldiers under orders of tyrannical kings in ...

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The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 10 years ago on June 26, 2015, legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.

A Supreme Court decision demonstrates a new degree of cimperiousness, seeming to co-sign the Trump administration’s contempt for the lower courts. By Kate Shaw The New York Times Supreme Court ...