With Election Day in the books, the next step is the Electoral College. The process of electing the President of the United ...

When will the election results be certified? When will the new president take office? A timeline of events from now until Inauguration Day.

These voices help define the United States at the dawn of a new century. “Susan-Mary Grant's vigorous new history of the United States is the ideal text for our troubled times. A fast-paced account of ...

Saint Augustine brings the first European settlement to the United States, introducing Catholicism ... anti–illegal immigrant law in U.S. history. The legislation, SB-1070, cracks down on ...

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Dates have finally been announced for when the SS United States will leave Philadelphia and make her way to Alabama before ...

The history of U.S. marijuana legislation is long and complex. Here, we offer a shortened version in five maps that show which states have legalized what — and when. But first, the lingo ...

President-Elect Donald Trump says his mass deportation plan will go ahead. Hiring firms and labor economists have begun to ...

Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

In 1885, while New Mexico was still a territory of the United States, Albuquerque was chartered ... Read more below the timeline in the historical postscript. The Spanish established the City ...

As the new country developed it became evident that a flag should be created as a symbolic representation of it. The ...

Election Day has come and gone and Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the United States It was an election unlike any other in modern history. Trump defeated sitting Vice President Kamala ...