In 1864, a peculiar book called "Spectropia" offered Victorian readers a scientific way to summon ghosts. As the Smithsonian reports, author J.H. Brown created this "toy book" to combat what he called ...

Arizona’s Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions officially ... deciding in April to let the state enforce the long-dormant 1864 law that criminalized all abortions except when a woman ...

Cumberland Middle School students have researched the story of John Robinson and made the case for a historical marker.

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Arizona is one of nine states with abortion on the ballot.

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Voters in seven states restored, protected, or expanded the right to abortion care in their state. Many of them also voted ...

In April, the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a near-total ban on abortion from 1864, ruling in a 4-2 decision that the Civil War-era law took precedence over a 15-week ban passed in 2022.

Prop. 139, a proposed state constitutional amendment to safeguard abortion rights in Arizona, has divided voters. The measure ...

as we saw earlier this year when the Arizona Supreme Court revived an 1864 abortion ban, triggering anxiety and uncertainty. Lawmakers ultimately repealed the Civil War-era ban, replacing it with ...