Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered up a rare criticism of her counterpart in the Senate, saying that Minority Leader ...

After a single term in the House of Representatives (1847–49) and a return to practicing law, Lincoln was morally outraged at the 1854 passage of ... and the Civil War began.

The Civil War was a military, cultural, political, and economic milestone in American history. For four years the nation was in a bloody divide that extended from the East Coast to the pioneer West ...