Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt pours herself a cup of hot coffee. She takes a look outside at the scenery around her new home ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

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Seven centuries ago, in the very first great work which we can read as English … a 17,000-line poem … the very third word is ...

It's the middle of April in '25, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

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Khalil Mahmoud, was arrested, detained without charges, and designated a threat to national security solely because of his ...

Writing on what passes for Nigerian politics today is a pathetic attempt at making meaning out of wretched absurdity.