This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of ...

On Tuesday, voters in Madison County, Illinois, voted in favor of seceding from Cook County, Illinois. Roughly 56% of voters voted in favor of having Madison County in a state independent of Cook ...

Donald Trump is only the second US president to regain the White House, repeating the feat of Grover Cleveland in the late ...

U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will become the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the U.S. Senate.

Union cause. But many Republicans in Congress were urging him to take a stand for freedom. In 1862, under his authority as commander in chief, Lincoln drafted and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

To make things even more complicated, each state is awarded electoral votes based not on its population, but on its ...

U.S. Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds, both Republicans from South Dakota, spoke to a panel of state lawmakers Thursday. “As you all think about these issues, you have a lot of issues to ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress ... in 1863, the estimated value of all enslaved people was roughly US$13 ...

We found that legislators who are descendants of slaveholders are significantly wealthier than members of Congress without slaveholder ... At the time of emancipation in 1863, the estimated value of ...

Each representative serves a specific congressional district. Find your representative. The U.S. Senate terms are six years long. Unlike the House, these terms are staggered among the 100 senators.

It was Sparty’s birthday party at Canadian Tire Centre this afternoon, and for his special day, the Ottawa Senators gave their beloved mascot a 5-4 win. The Tampa Bay Lightning came into today ...

"Democrats will always have more money than us thanks to the liberal billionaire elites who prop up their campaigns but Republican Senate candidates are getting the message out with the resources ...