The historic misunderstanding around the word "compact" and a clue on why Vanderbilt remains neutral on Trump's academic policy.

As a historian, I find cemeteries fascinating, which is good because I will be spending a great deal of time there in the ...

There has always been a conflict between providing public safety and ensuring that we maintain our Constitutional rights.

Trump’s complete turnabout on speech is indicative of the contradictions and ironies in the bedrock principle of the American ...

A Vermont congressman from the 18th century was one of the first Americans to be jailed over political speech, and historians ...

Forty-five years ago the value of free speech rights resonated soon after our group of American journalists landed at ...

Assaults on the media and dwindling revenue add up to a democracy that is in peril, writes columnist Patrice Apodaca.

Whether the Roberts Supreme Court will continue to push American jurisprudence to the right — bending the law toward their preferred policy outcomes rather than precedent or originalist intent — is no ...

The founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned last year after a woman in Oklahoma accused the pastor of sexually abusing her in the 1980s pleaded guilty Thursday to five counts of lewd and indecent ...