Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

While presenting a series of executive orders conceived to increase electricity generation from coal, President Donald Trump ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

Seventy years old this year, Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Diaboliques is a masterclass in macabre dread – and inspired ...

This is Meredith Goldstein’s Love Letters newsletter for April 15th. Each week, Meredith shares tales of human connection, thoughts on public policy and relationships, and behind-the-scenes stories ...

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia ...

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

The king of England's "Red Coat" British soldiers engaged with a motley focused group of providential farmers, shopkeepers ...