An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape slavery. Some fugitives took to the sea.

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Legendary documentary film director Ken Burns this week said South Carolina was one of two violent colonies where it would ...

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George Simion is just 38 years old but now sitting on the threshold of remarkable power. He is the populist politician who ...

Given that Columbia, an Ivy League university, surrendered its academic freedom, and Harvard, the oldest and richest American university ... was 2013 Nobel laureate British physicist Peter ...

When the Guardian revealed highly classified information about the United States government's surveillance programmes in 2013, the British newspaper made a deliberate choice to edit and publish ...

Actually figuring out how much you need to retire can be challenging. Americans aged 18 and older estimate they’ll need ...

Newspapers like the Massachusetts Spy published bold, new ideas — and the shortcomings of their British leaders.

In the Caribbean spring, a green time for the region’s political development, there were few names that shaped the basin’s ...

There's a cultural fight for the very liberties, ideals, mores, traditions and values that made this country great.

What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789? What if this ...