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In 'The Newspaper Axis,' historian Kathryn S. Olmsted details how prior to WWII, press barons including William Randolph Hearst worked to sway the public toward Hitler's line

The House of Representatives on Tuesday tasked the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) and telecommunication companies with the need to ensure

Tribal leaders and advocates leading education reform in New Mexico launched their campaign to ask voters to support a ballot initiative that would take more money from the state’s $25.5 billion Land Grant Permanent Fund and spend it on public school students, including those in pre-K.

The 5:30 am freight ferries were a topic of discussion for the Steamship Authority board Tuesday morning in response to a June 8 public hearing that mostly criticized the ferry service for not working with Woods Hole residents to mitigate noise and traffic. Though SSA general manager Robert Davis said the 2023 schedule would likely […]

The town is believed to be the only municipality in Maine with its own nurse. Originally charged with caring for the town's infants and schoolchildren, the town nurse now spends a lot of time helping older residents.

The Founders looked ...for classically liberal models of republican government, the most interesting...belonged to the Romans and the Jews.

From the establishment of a government for Oklahoma Territory in what is now western Oklahoma, and from the beginning of the reservations held by various Indian tribes in what is

11/27/2013: On July 4th, 1889, seventy-five delegates from northern Dakota Territory met in Bismarck for the North Dakota Constitutional Convention. The Enabling Act, passed in February of that year, allowed for the creation of a state constitution that would go into effect when North Dakota became a state in the coming months. Most of the seventy-five delegates were farmers or lawyers from the eastern part of the state, but their differing opinions created tension and disagreements.

To mark the anniversary of the passing of the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz), we explain the history of the constitution and the key rights it upholds.

<p>Jane Stanford's murder by poisoning in 1905 was part of a long chain of inequities and moral abdications that attended the great Gilded Age fortunes at every step, from their accumulation to their dispersal as philanthropy. </p>