The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and ...

There is a clear consensus among historians on these points. No, the income tax was not a mistake. But it was something stranger: both a 40-year struggle and an accident. In 1913, the states ratified ...

The quirky public art pieces along Route 66 are part time capsule, part creative canvas. From fiberglass giants to a man-made ...

Whether depicting Watergate, the abolition of slavery, or the road to war, these films have been in turn insightful, inspiring and of course ... journey through Abraham Lincoln's second term ...

Manisha Sinha spoke to Salon about Donald Trump's 19th-century vision and America's history of radical resistance ...

The government can even intervene in a case that it's not a party to and exercise the privilege, if it believes damaging information could come out during the course of the proceedings.

Responding to allegations that only poor men were fighting and dying, President Abraham Lincoln and his Republican ... Aldrich, of course, did not support the income tax amendment, but he believed ...

Fantastical sets, the sense of irony, irreverent style—it’s all very L.A., of course. So too is the ... It was bottled when Abraham Lincoln was campaigning for senator!” ...

On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they ...

“And, sure enough, when he was president, Abraham Lincoln issued passports to blacks in the Western territory of the U.S., in direct defiance, actually, of the Dred Scott case.” The lawyer ...