A flurry of executive orders have been signed since President Donald Trump took office in January. Is there a limit to them?

Donald J. Trump came in hot when he took the oath of office as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025.

Historians agree that  the earliest record of the West African chattel, commonly called slaves, arrived in America in 1619.

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

People often don’t realize the revolutionary nature of the 13th Amendment, and conservatives in particular downplay its revolutionary nature. American historians have for a long time treated the ...

Abraham Lincoln is often regarded as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, due to his leadership during the Civil War and his ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that Gordon Granger, a general in the Union Army, led thousands of Union troops into Galveston, Texas, to enforce Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ordering the end ...

Ashlee is an insurance editor, journalist and business professional with an MBA and more than 17 years of hands-on experience in both business and personal finance. She is passionate about ...

A proclamation is a form of presidential directive that calls for a specific action from citizens or government officials. Similar to executive orders, proclamations are also published in the ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...