In the United States, power often comes down to documentation. For centuries, those in power have used documents to police ...

How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

In her master’s thesis – “Journey to Freedom from Nebraska Territory” – Gail Shaffer Blankenau shines a light on a dark part of early Nebraska history by addressing slavery through the ...

Every year on Independence Day, I begin reading a book that pertains to our nation’s founding or significant history.

A brief article by Sam Dolgoff rejecting the Gandhi lead Indian independence movement, with a retort by the editor of The ...

In a stunning move, the world's richest person, Elon Musk has started the legal proceedings to form his own political party ...

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

In a maximum-security facility in upstate New York, students tackled Samuel Richardson’s “Clarissa” and Tolstoy’s “War and ...

Some of our politicians have forgotten America was founded on religious freedom and respect for those whose religious differs ...

Literature has the potential to create conditions and cultures that facilitate important endings and beginnings, such as abolition, such as independence, such as the end of apartheid, the end of ...