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A great-great-grandson of Joseph Smith Jr. found the Mormon prophet’s photo tucked inside a locket passed down for generations.

Exclusion and violence in Western U.S. states help explain the Whiteness of winter sports.

The debate regarding which Bible kids should read in school was about whether Catholic immigrants should have the full rights of American citizenship.

A review of “West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire."

Trump fans are better off as Americans.

With chatter about Texas leaving the union on the rise, two new books remind us what it was like the last time we tried to go it alone.

Ed Ayers visits the site where the transcontinental railroad was completed. He considers the project's human costs, and discovers how the environment and photography played key roles on the rails.

For decades, conspiracy theorists have clung to the fiction that thousands of soldiers are being held captive in Asia.

Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, disguised, crushed, mocked, diminished, punished, or excoriated.

For the waterway's 200th anniversary, learn about its creation and impact.

Years before Stonewall, many clergy members were standing on the front lines for gay rights.

It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it.