On June 1, 1950, Margaret Chase Smith stood up on the floor of the U.S. Senate to denounce her Republican colleague Joseph McCarthy for his fearmongering claims that communism had infiltrated the ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most extraordinary individuals in history. He became king of the fringe Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 336 BC at the age of just 20, and before his death twelve ...

But, in the end, it brought out the best in America." The attack took place on April 19, 1995, which remains the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history. Watch this video to know more.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe declared in an internal memo that China is the top priority for his agency, warning that "no adversary in the history ... that give the United States the advantage ...

For many of us, it has been a moment of recognizing how little we understood our history, how little we were exposed in school and elsewhere to the history of slavery and its very long ...

The longest filibuster in the U.S. Senate’s history was a speech made by South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, who held the Senate floor for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to delay voting on the ...

Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz said Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) “may have changed the course of political history” with his marathon speech breaking the Senate’s record for the longest ...

US Democratic Senator Cory Booker has made history in a protest against US President Donald Trump. The New Jersey Senator set a new record for the longest speech in US Senate history, surpassing ...

Cory Booker (D-NJ) surpassed the late South Carolina segregationist Strom Thurmond’s longstanding record for the longest speech in the history of the U.S. Senate, which was 24 hours and 18 minutes.

He, in the highest office of our land, wants to divide us against ourselves ... Already having delivered the second longest solo speech in Senate history, past presidential candidate Booker ...

It was not until 1969, in a case called Brandenburg v. Ohio, that the Supreme Court gave us a modern definition of the freedom of speech. Clarence Brandenburg harangued an Ohio crowd and urged them to ...