It is sensible to hope that on Nov. 3 most of the Republican Party will be smashed to atoms.

While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it remain a mystery to many. And while Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, …

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.

When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had

Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book challenges the supremacy of judicial review over democracy itself.

The best of the Appalachian South.

America should welcome birth tourists because they generate taxpaying citizens without the US having to invest in them

The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

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America and the Lost Cause explores how a narrative of Confederate defeat became embedded in our nation's culture. Click to read America and the Lost Cause, by Karen L. Cox, a Substack publication.

Baltimore’s four controversial Confederate monuments, removed in the dead of night nearly nine years ago, have reentered the city as quietly as they left.