The Missouri Compromise, also known as the Compromise Bill of 1820, admitted both Missouri and Maine to the Union — Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, according to History.com. The ...

Here’s how Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the Defense of Marriage Case described the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday, “The beginning of the end of stigma, of lying about who we are. It’s different ...

When the territory of Missouri applied for admission to statehood, the Congress and the nation were confronted with a unique substantive question that had far-reaching implications both for the ...