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For some, history is just that: Something to be learned in a classroom — a collection of names and stories in thick textbooks. But there are many reasons history is important well beyond a midterm ...

For more than two centuries, amendments have allowed our Constitution to grow with the country. The 13th Amendment, for instance put an end to slavery, while the 19th gave women the vote. It was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Were we more orderly, more patriotic in John Brown’s day? It’s not that simple. The Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, ...