The 162-year-old False Claims Act, passed by Congress in 1863, might be the key to forcing universities to follow the law ...

His son, Micheal Cresap, is credited with helping to save Washington’s army at the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775.

D-11 has been mismanaged and overly bureaucratic for over 50 years. This administration is the leanest and most ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will mark D.C. Emancipation Day on Sunday, April 13. It's free to attend.

There was a time when Black creatives could simply be grateful for the opportunity to make something, but that wasn’t true ...

During the Civil War, the Frakes family worked on the farm ... needed there and they brought in the crop.” Frakes died in 1863. Years later, the property was divided amongst the children.

Grant, the Lakota chief agreed to sit for Mathew Brady, famed for his Civil War-era photographs and his ... but launched his own studio in 1863, after what D. Mark Katz, in his Witness to an ...

Transport for London reported that the city's Underground was the first subway in the world, having opened in 1863. Beyond underground ... after the end of the Civil War, the Great Migration ...

Famous for rugged landscapes and the Appalachian mountains, West Virginia is one of America’s most underrated states.