Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

Born on Manhattan’s Delancey Street and raised in the Bronx, my great-aunt Libby lost her birthright citizenship at age 20 ...

The new post-Johnson Amendment regime is bound to be helpful to Republicans but unlikely to advance the cause of religion.

After an investigation into California’s legal protection of biological males who identify as female competing in the same ...

A rising wave of racist violence in the South prompted President Ulysses S. Grant to legal and military action against the Ku ...

Whether or not he knew it, JD Vance recently waded right into one of the thorniest questions in political philosophy: Who is a citizen and who is not, and who gets to decide? Above and beyond that ...

The United States’ founders firmly rejected King George III and the entire idea of monarchy 249 years ago, on July 4, 1776.

News from around the Southland includes items from Beverly, New Lenox, Palos Hills, Frankfort, Palos Heights, Chicago Heights and more.

Of all the art forms, theater may be the best at making the distant past feel immediate. In the right storytelling hands, ...

The Declaration of Independence wrote that, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among ...

The University of North Texas will pay $725,000 to settle a First Amendment lawsuit from Professor Timothy Jackson, following ...