Athens is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It has been a place of human settlement for at least ...

MARIETTA , Ga. — The Marietta History Center has launched a new online collections database, making thousands of artifacts, photographs and archival treasures accessible to the public from anywhere in ...

OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland has had many police chiefs over the years, in part to scandals, and in part, due to the department's cumbersome bureaucracy, including federal oversight and a powerful, ...

The U.S. government shut down much of its operations just after midnight on Wednesday, Oct. 1 as Congress and the White House remain deadlocked on reaching a funding deal, setting off what could be a ...

The Declaration of Independence was as much economic as political, resisting the mercantilist system favored by the British. That same year, Adam Smith published “The Wealth of Nations,” providing ...

In September 1975, Jefferson County Public Schools began court-ordered busing under a plan to desegregate local classrooms. The plan required the Louisville and Jefferson County school systems to ...

When Terry Parke, a state representative from Pittsfield, the chief sponsor of the Habitual Child Sex Offender Registration Act, discusses his 1986 bill, he describes it as “one of the most important ...

CBS host Tony Dokoupil agreed Wednesday with President Donald Trump’s push to have the Smithsonian Institution review how it presents American history. During a “CBS Mornings” segment, Dokoupil ...

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The bellicose saga between Iran and the United States goes back seven decades and 13 presidents, a relationship that broke down after the people of Iran rose up against a regime the United States ...

The US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites marks a nadir in the strained relationship between the two countries. But their fraught relations aren’t new. US involvement in, and conflict with, Iran is ...