Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

The religious right has hoped for the repeal of the Johnson Amendment since at least 2007, but for practical purposes the measure has only been truly endangered since the 2017 National Prayer ...

John C. Fremont Elementary has been renamed after two Mexican American civil rights trailblazers who were part of the ...

After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...

News from around the Southland includes items from Beverly, New Lenox, Palos Hills, Frankfort, Palos Heights, Chicago Heights and more.

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

Alva Belmont was a prominent Gilded Age socialite who married a Vanderbilt railroad heir. Later in life, she became a women's ...

The Declaration of Independence wrote that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among ...

Of all the art forms, theater may be the best at making the distant past feel immediate. In the right storytelling hands, ...

The University of North Texas will pay $725,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit from Professor Timothy Jackson, following its “formal investigation” and sanctions against him.