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Exercising the right to vote in Mississippi (in 1963). Air travel revolutionized (1958). Feds can't prove their case (1918). Markets plummet (1973). A new way of walkin' (1923). Deadly influenza (1918). None dare call it mutiny (1971)

As rightwing supermajority starts third term, legal experts ask how far it will go in reconfiguring the legal landscape of US

While Republicans threaten to bring the government to a halt, Democrats are caving in to the austerity measures they demand.

Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

There’s more to Helen Keller than her inspiring story of overcoming serious physical disabilities.

If you were expecting Congress to reassert its war-making authorities, think again.

Scientists have unearthed logs in Africa that are nearly a half-million years old, the remnants of large wooden structures crafted by our early ancestors.

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said the aim of the bill is to "stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger."

The Friends of Chile, An Evening With Salvador Allende Benefit Concert, on May 11, 1974, was one of the first to openly confront the intervention of the U.S. government in the military coup that had overthrown Salvador Allende a year earlier.

Reshaping the Kansas Technical Institute’s campus into an actual prison provides a perspective on what it means when, over time, whole populations are functionally criminalized.