Meet the American who was the first paid professional football player: Pudge Heffelfinger
Gridiron goliath and Yale star Pudge Heffelfinger was later paid $500 to play for the Allegheny Athletic Association in 1892, ...
‘Gangs of New York’ ending explained: What started the riots?
Martin Scorsese presents a sweeping history of mid-19th century New York in his film 'Gangs of New York'. But why do riots ...
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The long, long history of America’s urban-rural divide
Maps of the states that are expected to decide the presidential election are stunning. The urban areas in these states are ...
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10 years of civil war in Yemen
The health system has been decimated. Although violence has fallen, emergency funding is still well short of needs. Sharmila ...
America Has a Problem With Political Violence—and It’s a Growing One
Extremism expert Barbara F. Walter believes guns and the internet have put the US in the Goldilocks zone for chaos and ...
Rare Colonial New England coin up for auction, expected to fetch $1 million
With their former countrymen divided and lacking a monarch after the English Civil War, Colonists seized an opportunity to ...
Anti-'woke' activists waged war on DEI. Civil rights groups are fighting back.
In a letter shared exclusively with USA TODAY, civil rights groups urged top business leaders to speak out against the ...
The civil war inside the Republican Party deep in the heart of Texas
Hood County, Texas, has been shaken by a civil war between traditional Republicans and a far-right faction of the party ...
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This Defeated Presidential Candidate, Once the ‘Best-Known Man in America,’ Died in a Sanatorium Less Than a Month After Losing the Election
Newspaper editor Horace Greeley unsuccessfully ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant in November 1872. Twenty-four days ...
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America’s Electoral College: Six Surprising Facts About the Who and How
Surprising facts about the Electoral College's origins and evolution—and just who is an elector—to ponder alongside giving a watch to One Person, One Vote? on PBS.
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Lesson Plan: Historic Presidential Elections - 1860 - Lincoln vs. Douglas vs. Breckinridge
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An introduction to the 1860 election is featured. Author and history professor Rachel Shelden talked about the issue of slavery at the time, the ...