Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have voiced support for renaming military bases for Confederate generals. In the years following the Civil War, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk, Fort ...
Music legend George Clinton, who founded the Parliament Funkadelic universe in a Plainfield barbershop, is up for a Grammy.
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We take a look at the top playmakers from Week 11 of the Tennessee high school basketball season in the Nashville area.
Suppose you assembled 100 intelligent, public-spirited people experienced with the complexities of managing enormous bureaucracies, deeply familiar with today’s geopolitical challenges, alert to the i ...
The Museum on Main’s 2025 Ed Kinney Speaker Series will lead off in February with Chautauqua actor James Armstead appearing ...
David Wright Faladé bases a novel on his own investigation of his tangled parentage in postwar France.
The death of 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown sparked angry protests in 2020, and led to the rare conviction of two D.C. police officers.