The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

Despite its name, the Department of Government Efficiency is not, so far, primarily interested in efficiency. DOGE and its ...

More from Wes about the causes of the Civil War. What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the ...

Anya Jabour, Ph.D., has been teaching and researching the history ... Civil War represented a crisis of masculinity. Like Jimmy Jr., many young white men in the Civil War South equated military ...

This effort to put Trump’s own interests over the best interests of the American people and ... Let’s be clear that the ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers who went to war — have been serving in combat for centuries.

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

a funeral service was held for civil rights activist Ruth Ann Butler, who died on Jan. 15. Butler, 81, was a teacher before becoming a curator, working to preserve African-American history at the ...