Contrary to Marine Le Pen's claims, the legitimacy of judges is just as strong as that of political leaders, the historian ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

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His two main arguments are that the Patriots, not the British, were primarily responsible for burning Norfolk in early 1776 and that British emancipation of enslaved people in late 1775 and early ...

The statute was meant to be a monumental gesture of French-American friendship to mark the 100th anniversary of the July 4, 1776, Declaration ... want to fire all the people who, through their ...

The Marquis de Lafayette (Sept 6, 1757 – May 29, 1834) was a French aristocrat, military officer, politician and liberal ...

François Chollet has constructed the ultimate test for the bots.

It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their first victory against the Crown, and after that there was no turning back: the ...

Even during the American Revolutionary War, Bunce Island was caught in conflict. In 1779, the French attacked the site ... for dark tourism, drawing people from around the world - especially ...

He spied for the American military during the Siege of Yorktown, infiltrating British lines and delivering vital intelligence to the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat who was commanding ...