Sarah Palin was once a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which advocates secession from the Union.

Historians focus on Emancipation Proclamation, and it was important. But other activists and policies mattered too

The Texas governor's states-first approach would overwhelmingly benefit Democratic areas

Perry went on to call the demand for gay equality in the Boy Scouts of America the "flavor of the month"

“Nothin’ could be finer” than to see Georgia flip yet again

To fully understand what happened yesterday one must first dig into the history of Scotland's nationalist sentiment

Earlier this week, Ken Burns blew the lid off of this election's most unsettling developments

Racist myth-making conquered American history — and white people's minds — for far too long. Time to face the facts

The new censored version of the classic book is a cowardly attempt by Americans to avoid their own tortured history

The states' rights explanation of the Civil War was always doomed, celebrated historian James Loewen tells Salon

The Hutaree militia extremists might be Christians, but what they were (allegedly) doing was still jihad

Michael Peroutka, the pro-secession nominee to be Maryland's attorney general, suggests he lost due to fraud

The Obama administration is asking China to use influence with Sudan's president to press for an end to violence

An article in Salon about the campaign's ties to the Alaska Independence Party set off a nasty exchange