Several people were detained, accused of ruining the president’s plan to renovate the monument, where algae and flaking paint now cover the surface
The president spent weeks boasting about the no-bid contracts awarded to two companies for $14.2 million, only to have the water turn green in a matter of days
The latest attack on the Republican comes in a country that has seen four presidents assassinated while in office
The 1807 legislation allows the US president to deploy the Armed Forces on national territory in times of insurrection, rebellion, or widespread civil unrest
The death of Trump’s ally, whose funeral will draw a large crowd, is fueling the ideological clash between Republicans and Democrats
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
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
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
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 United States came close to annexing the whole Mexican territory after the war. This is how they got half of it
Los Angeles-area Huntington Library has acquired the reclusive writer’s literary archive
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