The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with key battles fought in places like Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina ...

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled on Monday with a bid by Louisiana officials and civil rights groups to preserve an electoral ...

“Louisiana ... Civil War efforts – particularly in the South – to limit the political power of African Americans. And yet the equal protection clause demands that a state cannot draw a map ...

David Leroy — a Lincoln historian who spoke at the Museum of Idaho Wednesday night in celebration of the state’s creation on March 4, 1863 — says Lincoln’s fate might have been different ...

In 1863 — in the middle of the Civil War — Wharton married Anne “Nannie” Radford, whose family helped found the independent city of the same name. Wharton surrendered at Lynchburg on June ...

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 of ...

A majority of the court appeared skeptical of a challenge to Louisiana’s voting map. The challengers had ... central legislative achievement of the civil rights era, though its scope has been ...

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a number of processing centers and detention facilities that are a part of ICE's New Orleans field offices. These facilities, located ...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is accusing President Trump of seeking to start a civil war. The California Democrat, a longtime adversary of Trump, said the early flood of presidential policies ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional ... which is defending the congressional map, and civil rights groups that more ...

Civil war erupted in South Sudan in late 2013 when a rift between Kiir and Machar escalated into fighting along ethnic lines. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, accused a group of soldiers loyal to Machar ...