L egal experts across the political spectrum expressed alarm when the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on Donald Trump’s claims to ...

As Genghis Khan lay dying in August 1227, he commanded his heir, Ögedei, to continue the mission of conquest. During his ...

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Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the winter of 1789, around the time George Washington was elected the country's first president, a Boston-based printer quietly launched another American institution.

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke. The nobility refused to pay more taxes, and the peasants simply couldn't. Even the opulent King Louis XVI, fonder of hunting ...

The Founders abhorred a judiciary more loyal to the Crown than to the rule of law. But now the independent system they ...

These factors have contributed, to varying extents, to the astonishing success of a republic that started off with 3.9 million people in 1789 and has 321 million today. One way we are exceptional ...

The rare piece of American history — the only U.S. Constitution of its ... He was the governor of North Carolina from 1787 to ...

On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution, completed in Philadelphia, was signed by a majority of the 55 delegates to the ...

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Campbell, James 2013. The Death of Frank Wilson: Race, Crime, and Punishment in Post-Civil War Pennsylvania. American Nineteenth Century History, Vol. 14, Issue. 3, p. 305. Pashman, Howard 2013. The ...