The day Roldo Bartimole turned 35—April 5, 1968—a crisis of conscience struck him.
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The sultan of Morocco gifted Martin Van Buren a pair of lions, but a little-known part of the Constitution — the same that threatens to ensnare President Trump — forced him to turn them over.
In Ohio, voters ratified a bipartisan deal that gives the minority party more say in how congressional maps are drawn.
After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation’s new anti-sedition laws.
Every modern commander in chief, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama, has gripped-and-grinned for the cameras with cruel authoritarians.
During World War I, vaudeville star Elsie Janis traveled to France to bring good cheer to U.S. troops.
How a bunch of tiny police departments in eastern Massachusetts are fighting the opioid epidemic by offering treatment, not jail.
