WASHINGTON (AP) — The rights of Americans to self-determine how to educate their children — a hotly contested matter that stretches back to at least the Civil War — have long been intertwined with the ...

The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Museum in Scranton hosted an in-depth look at the personal lives of Pennsylvania's Civil War soldiers. The GAR Museum's mission is to preserve and pass along to ...

America has done this before — creating, then decapitating a federal department of education. It was right after the Civil War, it wasn’t pretty, and the toxic debate surrounding it sounds familiar ...

After the Civil War, education became a cornerstone of freedom for newly emancipated African Americans. Communities, often with minimal resources, built schools to break generations of enforced ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Friday morning that it has opened investigations looking into the universities’ partnership with a nonprofit organization focused ...