We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Spanish interest in the region picked up when Russia looked to settle in the Californias in the mid-18th century. While ...

In fact, it existed for 125 years, but you wouldn’t have found it on any U.S. map. The Free and Independent State of Scott was founded during the Civil War when Scott County, Tennessee, opted to ...

The nationalist secession movement is defined as residents in one state desire their state to secede completely from all United States government tentacles for it to become an independent nation. An ...

Indiana has looked at adding 33 counties from Illinois that signaled they want to leave the state - which could lead to whole new maps of the U.S.. Indiana House Republicans have listed embracing ...

Ten other Southern states and parts of two others followed. The federal government wouldn’t let them leave, and a four-year war with upward of 700,000 fatalities followed.

From peaceful southern Illinois, Chicago can look like a crime-ridden hellhole that's welcomed far too many asylum seekers and is driving the state off a financial cliff and into a $3.2 billion ...

Even before Lincoln took office, seven Southern states seceded. The worst turnout in recent years — 49% — occurred in 1996, when Democrat Bill Clinton won a second term by defeating Republican ...