Israel How Browne, also known as Israel Howe Browne, lived at 71 Concord St. He was known to allow escaped slaves to sleep in ...

The defendants say their actions can’t amount to fraud or forgery because “nobody was fooled” by the alternate slate of presidential electors they submitted to Congress.

On Feb. 2, 1848, the war between the United States and Mexico formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe ...

Facing a $40 million estimate to restore the Bennington Battle Monument, state and local officials, historic preservationists ...

Marshall Twitchell had only been in Northwest Louisiana for six months when he met a young woman named Adele Coleman in ...

Concerns about the future of American democracy dominate headlines worldwide — but Texas is already decidedly less democratic than the U.S. at large.

Is the future of the Panama Canal under threat? Discover why the canal is struggling and the projects proposed to replace it.

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

The Democratically led Senate quickly dispatched two articles ... (Secretary of War William Belknap was the first to be impeached in 1876. He was found not guilty.) “I really think that Ali ...

Yet since its current constitution was written in 1876, Texas has effectively been a one-party state ... mental health programs and career workshops. The Texas Senate is considering expanding this ...