A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: The American spirit.

This Independence Day, sometime between the pancake breakfast and the fireworks display, take a moment to remember what the day is really all about. Read the Declaration of Independence.

Just two years after it was bought for $4, it was sold at Sotheby’s for $2,420,000, establishing a record at the time for any ...

Las Cruces, in southwestern New Mexico, is nourished by the Rio Grande River and the fertile Mesilla Valley, surrounded by the Chihuahuan Desert and backed in the east ...

Several hundred years later, after the Mexican War culminated in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, the United States government acquired jurisdiction over the area. The emergence of ...

The war ended with the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the U.S. later purchased a small amount of border land to build a railroad in the Gadsden Purchase. Attracting considerable attention in the ...

Lawmaker asks U.S. attorney to intervene in New Mexico common lands case – Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico A state lawmaker is asking the top federal prosecutor in New Mexico to reopen a case that ...

When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed on Feb. 2, 1848, Mexico ceded about half of its territory to the United States, mainly parts of what are now Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas.

This rare photo recalls Alton’s City Hall, destroyed by a 1924 fire just before planned renovations.

The decade between 1850 and 1860 was one of explosive growth—and upheaval—for Chicago. In ten years, its population ballooned from just under 30,000 to nearly 110,000.

This move marks one of the reasons Austin is considered the “Father of Texas,” and it encouraged further American citizens to make similar journeys to Texas over the following decades. Together, they ...

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican–American War and redrew the southern boundaries of the U.S., was written in both Spanish and English, ensuring that Spanish speakers ...