FROM THE WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT, THE LIBERAL CONTROLLED COURT STRIKING DOWN THE STATE’S 1849 ABORTION LAW. ATTORNEY GENERAL JOSH KAUL, WHO FILED THE LAWSUIT CHALLENGING THAT LAW. REACTING TO THE ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced. Abortion-rights ...

Sandwiched between the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the Civil War in 1861, the California Gold Rush is considered by many historians to be the most significant event of the first half of the ...

This drawing by Nathaniel Currier was used by many publications across the country reporting on the Great Fire of 1849 in St. Louis. The fire began about 10 p.m. May 17, 1849, on the steamboat White ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state’s 1849 abortion ban. The court’s liberal majority ruled the ban is no longer valid because newer abortion restrictions supersede it. In practice, the ...