The Briscoe Ranch near Uvalde remains one of the largest in the state at 640,000 acres. Founded in 1910 by Dolph Briscoe Sr., ...

Jimmy Carter, a steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Dec ...

President Grover Cleveland on Saturday, Jan. 4, 1896, issued the proclamation admitting Utah to the Union as the 45th state.

Days of honoring the 39th president began on Saturday with stops at his childhood farm, the Georgia State Capitol and the ...

At this time, 211 years ago, our area was on the frontlines of the United States’ second conflict with Great Britain, which ...

In 1853, Solomon Northrop regained his freedom following his kidnapping and being sold into slavery. He would later write a ...

"The lithium, the cobalt, the nickel. Those we need for electric vehicles and clean energy technologies," said Gracelin ...

It was the end of January 1847. The USS Lexington, a sloop of war, lay at anchor in Monterey Bay. The small transport had ...

Unionists responded with their own verses. Augustine Duganne, a New York legislator, soldier and poet, asked in an 1863 poem: ...

The USRA was born under a unique confluence of circumstances. Prior even to American involvement in the First World War, the ...

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