Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, who was an enslaved farmworker in Brazil, clears land in 2015 in Monsenhor Gil, Brazil, after obtaining his freedom. Millions...
Members of the Utah National Guard were deployed to Washington in June 2020 in response to public protests and demonstrations. AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are far from the first politicians to be accused of flip-flopping on issues. Francesco Zerilli/Zerillimedia/Science Photo Library
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George Washington, hand on the Bible, at his inauguration in 1789 as the first president of the U.S.
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A judge bench and a jury box are seen in a U.S. courthouse in Cleveland, Ohio.
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It...
by George R. Goethals, University of Richmond
Every American president has landed in the history books. And historians’ assessments of their performance have been generally...
by Woody Holton, University of South Carolina
Editor’s note: Americans may think they know a lot about the Declaration of Independence, but many of those...
by Jennifer Selin, Wayne State University
As the Jan. 6 committee’s hearings pass their halfway point, they have brought new details to light that explain...
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1791—Benjamin Banneker writes a letter to Secretary of State (later president) Thomas Jefferson denouncing slavery. In his letter, Banneker declared, “I freely and...
