On October 13, 1775, America’s Continental Congress passed a resolution to establish the present-day U.S. Navy with a “swift sailing vessel, to carry ten carriage guns and a proportionable number of ...

Re “Trump’s Politics Are Changing How History and Civics Are Taught” (news article, Nov. 7): As the historian John Hope Franklin once observed, “The writing of history reflects the interests, ...

The United States federal government shut down at 12:01am East Coast time (04:01 GMT) on Wednesday after Congress failed to pass a new spending bill, forcing operations considered inessential to close ...

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