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When police in Ohio raided Dollree Mapp’s home looking for evidence in a bombing, all they found were some “lascivious books.” Mapp appealed her porno...

Author-educator Herbert Alan Johnson explains how a lawsuit over a steamboat monopoly ultimately led to Congress gaining the power to...

Even for those of us unfamiliar with history, the very name “Gettysburg” suggests a monumental clash of armies. But beyond the chaos of the battle...

Americans are familiar with Civil War land battles—but much less so with the war at sea, from the development of ironclad warships and submar...

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as 1973’s Roe v. Wade, which affirmed a woman’...

Despite a Union advantage in men and resources, the Confederates dominated in the early months of the Civil War. Only one federal general seemed to ha...

A panel of military historians from the United States Army’s Command and General Staff College discusses Lincoln’s leadership tr...

Jennifer Weber, an assistant professor of history at the University of Kansas, discusses her new book Copperheads: T...

On Friday, May 1, at 7 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St., local author Andrea Wa...