Rep. Don Young has represented Alaska since 1973. Do you know who served before him?
Buried dozens of pages into the Defense Appropriations Act of 2010 was the first and only congressional apology to Native peoples.
Visualize the 117th Senate and its members, and compare it with past congresses
The Senate failed, barely, to secure a two-thirds majority in favor of convicting President Andrew Johnson
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting by protecting voting rights. It banned poll taxes and literacy tests and required states with historians of Jim Crow discrimination to seek advance clearance before changing and requiring states with histories of Jim Crow discrimination to obtain advance clearance to change laws governing voting.
