1845: Slaveholding Texas is annexed into the United States, sparking the Mexican War. By 1848, Mexico cedes more than half of its territory to the U.S., including New Mexico and California in ...

During the Age of Enlightenment, anything was thought possible, and for African Americans, this included freedom and equality, "the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Free blacks and ...

Nearly 186.5 million Americans are eligible to vote for the November 5 election to choose the 47th president of the United ...

Enlistment into any branch of the U.S. military, by citizens of countries other than the United States is limited ... 2,700 communities across the 54 states, territories and the District of ...

Oct. 27, 1913 (UP) -- "The United States will never seek another foot of territory by conquest and ... He stumbled on America and changed the map of the world. "Since then the trade of the world ...

Arkansas’s northern boundary was shaped in 1813 when Arkansas County was formed within the Mississippi Territory. When ...

A new variant of COVID-19 is growing in the United States according to ... get tested for infectious diseases. Here is a map of the states and territories that have reported wastewater viral ...

The political geography of Israel and the Palestinian territories has been changing ... (In a reversal of long-standing U.S.

As competition for resources in the Arctic Ocean intensifies, nations are staking claims to swaths of undersea territory ... map out claims to the seabed into high gear. Last month, the United ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed two laws reaffirming the extent of his country’s maritime territories ...

A proposal to merge two Australian jurisdictions has prompted debate on social media, amid renewed calls for Queensland to be ...