On Feb. 1, 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened in New York City for its first session. Only three of the six justices were ...

Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day, the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras, Black History Month, and more will take place in February.

Each year, The National Freedom Day Association returns to the Liberty Bell with a wreath in hand, recognizing the many steps it took for freedom to ring.

Black History Month was founded a century ago as Negro History Week. February was selected in honor of great abolitionist ...

The indictment (in U.S. v. Levy-Armstrong) is here. The allegations are that defendants violated 18 U.S.C. § 241 which ...

United States, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the joint resolution proposing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, ...

This story is part of an occasional series on research projects currently in the works at the Law School.The “unclean hands” ...

This week in history: Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, and the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-in begins. Also: Harry Truman proclaims February 1 as National Freedom Day; an iceberg is ...

St. James Parish says it ushered heavy industry into two majority-Black districts because they were close to the Mississippi ...

In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be ...

National Freedom Day — to celebrate Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, outside the Blount County Courthouse.