The United States formally secured the acquisition of the vast Alaska territory from Russia on Oct. 18, 1867. The data is ...

Renowned Spanish artist Antoni Miralda joins EL PAÍS on a visit to one of the most famous merchandise stores in the United ...

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But the symbol that quite literally stands, more than any other, for freedom and refuge stands in New York Harbor: the Statue ...

Mark Rhodes spends his time at Spring Valley Cemetery cleaning up gravesites, but a new rule will limit him to only maintaining his relatives' plots.

Donald Trump — who has pledged to carry out the largest migrant deportation in US history — is striking a decidedly different ...

Ax ‘Jewish’ from all agencies! Let’s all learn from the board of The Kehillah School (“Kehillah high school in Palo Alto ...

On June 18, 1977, about 45 marchers with the Texas Farm Workers Union set out to the nation’s capital from Austin on a ...

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It’s not really the way we want to do it, but we’ll take them any way we can get them.” is what Allentown’s Briggs Danner had to say after winning the USAX Sprint Car race at Lawrenceburg, Pa., ...

The first North Carolina state flag in history was heavily inspired by the first Confederate States of America flag. This flag didn't have the blue X-shape of later Confederate flags.