Slavery was a part of everyday life in Tennessee during this time. About one in four of all the people living in Tennessee…

The History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee states that its author, William Mack Lee (1835-1932), was a body servant and cook…

The Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives (KDLA), in Frankfort, Kentucky, houses the largest collection of papers concerning Kentucky’s Civil War-era governors.…

On March 26, 1857, William Ellison wrote to his son Henry Ellison about the family business. Life was going well and Ellison…

This article was published in 2017 … in light of 2020’s slavery issues, we’ve re-published this article in this ever-than-more relevant time.…

This article was initially published during the impeachment trials of President Donald J. Trump, whom was acquitted of two charges of impeachment.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump, hinging his campaign on turning out his core supporters, has increasingly used his public appearances to…

Fact #1: The young Abraham Lincoln described himself as “a piece of floating driftwood.” The second child of Thomas and Nancy Lincoln…

On September 16, 1620, the Mayflower sails from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia,…

Frederick Douglass was a “from here.” Where I was raised, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, a “from here” is the opposite…

A Biden campaign TV ad falsely claims that a government analysis of President Donald Trump’s “planned cuts to Social Security” shows that…

When the Second Continental Congress convened in 1775, firebrands including Samuel Adams of Massachusetts and Patrick Henry of Virginia steered the 13 colonies of the United States toward…

Although he could not foresee our present national peril, Abraham Lincoln continually exhorted his own generation to maintain our free Republic. You…

“I have the distinct pleasure of running against the worst presidential candidate in the history of presidential politics,” President Donald Trump said…

President Donald Trump publicly added 20 names Wednesday to his list of candidates for the Supreme Court, including six women, three Senate…

Senate Republicans rallied around a $300 billion coronavirus aid package, but it fell short of the necessary 60-vote majority to advance, effectively killing…

The Constitution’s framers viewed political parties as a necessary evil. Today, it may seem impossible to imagine the U.S. government without its…

Populated democratic news media throughout the nation today is discussing President Trump’s discussion with Bob Woodward about downplaying the Coronavirus, and that…

The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia on this day in 1776, declared that the name of the newly formed nation fighting…

The members of this Congress, sincerely devoted, with the warmest sentiments of affection and duty to His Majesty’s Person and Government, inviolably…