Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has signed over 100 executive orders, many of which have sparked legal challenges. In this article, we’ll explore the most impactful orders and the legal battles they’ve triggered.
In 1994, the system of apartheid came to an end in South Africa, as the nation held its first free and fair democratic elections. The end of apartheid came after decades of struggle by activists in South Africa, combined with an international campaign of boycotts and divestment.
Some presidential scandals, from George H.W. Bush’s hatred of broccoli to Barrack Obama’s tan suit, have been a little stranger and less-known than others.
Between the assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump in June and current President Joe Biden dropping out of the election just a few months before Election Say, it has been anything but a normal presidential campaign cycle.
Although presidential assassination attempts are not unprecedented, it has been over 4 decades since a current or former president was attacked and harmed. In this blog, we will take a look back at 7 presidential assassination attempts in history.
The Fourth of July commemorates colonial America’s declared independence from Great Britain. But, do you know how the Independence Day came to be a national holiday, and why it is held on July 4th?
Today, all eligible members of the LGBTQ+ community are allowed to serve in America’s military. However, it hasn’t always been that way. The treatment of queer people in the armed forces has a fraught history.
We’ve expanded HeinOnline’s Executive Privilege database with fresh documents so researchers can explore the prerogative of the U.S. president to safeguard specific information from subpoenas and other scrutiny by the legislative & judicial branches.
Before 1970, most Americans weren’t aware that anything was wrong with the environment. That all changed in 1970, when activists across the country came together for Earth Day, which became the largest one-day protest in all of world history.
Occasionally, the scientific community undertakes a task that is so important that it requires an international effort. One of these was the Human Genome Project—an effort to identify and sequence all 3 billion base pairs that make up human DNA.
