RYAN D. GRIFFITHS is Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University and the author of The Disunited States: Threats of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa is celebrating is 178th year of statehood on December 28th, review the long rich history of the corn capital of the United States. Iowa was signed into the Union as a ...

Utah was admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896, and that year sent its first two senators and one representative to Congress, all members of the Republican Party. "Statehood is an ...

The last man to serve as president for the Republic of Texas was Anson Jones. While he guided Texas to statehood, his life ...