Kings and Generals continues its animated historical documentary series on early modern history and the United States with a new series on the American Civil War. Previously, we explored the American ...

Artists take on self-evident truths, recent history, and more ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Like everything else in America, childhood has become political. Granted, there have been examples of politically engaged cartoons in the ... a thriving and unifying civil society.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” Benjamin Franklin American polymath: a writer, ...

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network A breakup? The end of a friendship? The ...

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Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the women on Texas’s death row, and they’ve made the inmates affiliates of their order. Lawrence Wright tells the story of a powerful s ...

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He began drawing editorial cartoons full-time for The Journal News in Westchester County in 1993, and in 2009 started drawing for The Hearst Newspaper Group in Connecticut.

The Emancipation Proclamation was signed Jan. 1, 1863. This freed the slaves. That this was even necessary should have ended the stain on our country’s history. Such is not the case. The ...