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Missouri Republicans are sending a message: We don’t want diversity in public colleges | Opinion
Kansas City Star via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe makeup of the staff and students at state universities already doesn’t look like the people who...
Was Chief Justice Roger Taney reasonable in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAccording to current legal opinion, the Dred Scott case was the Supreme Court’s worst. The Civil War...
Cameron Brown: Chaos or community
Sturgis Journal via Yahoo News· 7 months agoUpon the adoption of the Missouri Compromise allowing the 24th state to join the Union as a slave state, Thomas Jefferson penned these words: “... This...
Speaker election takes 15 ballots, the most since before Civil War
CBS News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe race for House speaker was finally settled at the end of a fourth day of negotiating and...
Trump Says We Should Have Negotiated Around the Civil War. Here’s What Would Have Happened.
Politico via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFormer President Donald Trump thinks history could have been different, if only Abraham Lincoln had...
Political compromises – like the debt-limit deal – have never been substitutes for lasting solutions
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWill the debt ceiling bill negotiated by President Joe Biden, left, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy...
Trump faces backlash for saying American Civil War ‘could’ve been negotiated’
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDonald Trump claimed the American Civil War — fought over slavery — could have been negotiated and...
Gateway Arch National Park may not sound familiar, but you probably recognize its landmark
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoCorrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated the year of the Dred Scott...
PolitiFact: Did Democrats want to expand slavery pre-Civil War, while Republicans opposed it?
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 4 months agoRepublican presidential contender Nikki Haley failed to use the word “slavery” when discussing the...
Henry Clay was among controversial, 'conspicuous characters' in Columbus
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHenry Clay was one of the most prominent and provocative men of his time. A son of the generation of...