Over multiple decades, West Virginia’s Robert Byrd proposed an amendment eight ... Public support for US involvement in a war ...

How could Americans be such nice and decent people and support someone so debasing, so deranged, so hate-filled? It was the ...

Cambridge, UK  As the voting results started coming in here from Virginia at 4 am (GMT, which is five hours later than ...

Many now believe that the U.S. could descend into political violence. Some are joining survivalist communities, canning food—and buying guns.

A Republican presidential candidate endangering democracy, threatening the Constitution and such a menace to America he could foment a civil war?

On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout known as the ...

Alton's 1941 Halloween Parade showcased a Three Little Pigs float by Luer Brothers Meat Packing Co., marking the last parade before WWII.

The moderate Richmond, Virginia, Whig argued that Lincoln’s ... they drove seven Southern states to secede from the Union even before the new president took office. Their blind fear of the ...

Ashley settled in Cape Girardeau after trekking out from Virginia. He was an educated man ... Missouri — at Charleston and ...

Aaron Burr had traveled West just six months before to carve out his own empire ... And many of its residents talked openly of secession. Burr believed that with a relatively small and well ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ... to prevent the process by which Virginia and the border slave States were ...