Some blacks, however, were living free. The census of 1790 revealed that 59,000 free blacks lived in the United States -- approximately 27,000 in the North and 32,000 in the South. By 1830 ...

For years, a map of the US allegedly showing what will happen to the country if "we don't reverse climate change" has spread across social media. Snopes previously fact-checked this meme ...

Going into the November general election, a race that has yielded a stream of unexpected storylines, we can learn from the ...

Up until that time, if you drew a map of where people were and were not living in the United States, and drew a line ... BEN WATTENBERG: From 1790 on, that line had been moving steadily Westward.

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so when we see a percentage like that we might not realize how many waterways there are in the United States and how many are threatened. The map above gives you an idea of the number of rivers ...

The militant group targeted areas in Israel farther south than most of its previous attacks, reinforcing fears of broader regional conflict. For Middle Eastern Foes, Diplomacy Takes a Back Seat to ...

In their submission to NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge, two high school students in Roslyn, New York, investigate a claim that the first U.S. president spent a night in their town in 1790.

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Breaking away from mainstream US Jewry, Joel Pollak opposes the separation of church and state while dismissing concerns that ...

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