The Insurrection Act: How it has been used before and why Trump wants to invoke it now
The 1807 legislation allows the US president to deploy the Armed Forces on national territory in times of insurrection, rebellion, or widespread civil unrest
Charlie Kirk’s murder exposes America’s deep divisions
The death of Trump’s ally, whose funeral will draw a large crowd, is fueling the ideological clash between Republicans and Democrats
Chapter 8: Rewriting the past to conquer the future
Donald Trump has set out to end the alleged campaigns that, according to him, attempted to tarnish the nation’s greatness by questioning its history
$34 million for sculptures of Whitney Houston or Kobe Bryant: This is what Trump’s patriotic garden will look like
The US president has proposed creating a space to pay tribute to 250 ‘great figures of America’s history’ with a National Garden of American Heroes expected to open next year
The Emancipation Proclamation: the first step towards the end of slavery in the US
On September 22, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln drafted the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which he issued on January 1, 1863, changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved people in the Confederacy
The Underground Railroad of the south: The unknown story of the slaves who fled to Mexico
Historian Alice Baumgartner connects the Civil War with the abolition of slavery in its neighboring country: ‘Lincoln and Juárez’s alliance contributed to strangling the Confederacy’
The Mexican-American War ended 175 years ago: How did Mexico lose half its territory?
The United States came close to annexing the whole Mexican territory after the war. This is how they got half of it
Enigmatic American author Thomas Pynchon returns to Gordita Beach
Los Angeles-area Huntington Library has acquired the reclusive writer’s literary archive
Gettysburg’s lessons for American democracy
The vast majority of Americans believe that democracy is in danger, so EL PAÍS travelled to the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War in search of answers about how to protect it