Mountain Meadows. Courtesy: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Although Joseph Smith was no pacifist—he preached an aggressive self-defense against the Mormon Church's many ...

Thanks to the tremendous efforts of a great number of people, the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series continues to gain momentum. With this volume, the seventh in our series, we can present ...

The National Federation of Republican Assemblies makes the argument in a newly adopted resolution, citing the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford case, among others, which ruled at the time that enslaved ...

The High Court’s opinions are longer than ever. Sometimes even the footnotes establish important legal principles.

“The bowels of the banks, with us the great money-lenders, close with the snap and tenacity of steel-traps; and then a general panic, or want of commercial confidence, brings on a paralysis of ...

Britain's Prince Harry turns 40 and actor Matt Shively Jones turns 34, among the famous birthdays for Sept. 15.

Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More information can be found at Voteview . Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 ...

Dorothea Dix declared Allegheny County’s approach to detaining kids to be perfectly flawed in 1845. Many approaches later, ...