Virtually every historian of the Civil War knows that slavery was the moving force for secession which led to the Civil War.

Annie Polland argues that studying our humble roots teaches us what really makes American history exceptional.

As accusations of genocide in Gaza mount against Israel, NPR looks at how the term is defined legally and why previously ...

President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they definitely are outrageous, they hardly ...

In one of the briefest speeches at the United Nations General Assembly this year, Syria's new president broke a 60-year ...

Policymakers and scholars in the West talk about Southeast Asia as a coherent region, but it has always been divided. The region’s 700 million people speak hundreds of languages and follow different ...

Building on a wide-ranging career in academia and think tanks, Michael Werz is the senior advisor for North America and ...

The 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger Americans empowers the government to regulate six of greenhouse gases.

In the nation’s oldest city, tourism continues to be the essence of the local economy, and it’s booming year-round.

NEW YORK (AP) — Some countries’ leaders are watching rising seas threaten to swallow their homes. Others are watching their ...

To hear Trump tell it, the biggest problem with bodies like the U.N. wasn’t that they were bureaucratic, ossified structures ...

The FCC is prohibited from influencing network content but Chairman Brendan Carr and President Donald Trump have used ...