The trash takes when it comes to American history, and the country’s original sin of slavery is mind-boggling. 2020 is not letting up in regards to being a terrible year full of outrageous moments.

Sen. Tom Cotton made headlines this weekend because something he said about slavery is being misinterpreted — perhaps maliciously. He is being accused by some of defending the institution and its ...

PRATTVILLE, Ala. (AP) — There’s no painless way to explain the history of a massive brick structure being renovated into apartments in this central Alabama city — a factory that played a key role in ...

One history professor said Tom Cotton's quote was "really a kind of shorthand way of describing the complex set of attitudes of the founding generation and it's not really accurate" Arkansas Sen. Tom ...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has certainly had a number of opinions about slavery over the past few weeks, and somehow, none of them consisted of him saying “slavery was bad.” Now his comments from Sunday ...

Sen. Tom Cotton described the institution of slavery in America as a “necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as (Abraham) Lincoln said, to put slavery on the ...

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe, on Capitol Hill in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. Senator Tom Cotton ...

WASHINGTON -- A day after the publication of his comments on slavery sparked a firestorm of criticism, U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas denied Monday he was insensitive, saying he had been recounting ...

The lawmaker said the Founding Fathers considered slavery a "necessary evil." Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., defended controversial comments he made over the weekend after coming under fire for claiming ...

Tom Cotton has spent the Trump era elbowing his way to the front of the line to be the future of nationalist demagoguery. He recently seized upon a rich vein of material in the 1619 Project, a ...