According to a detailed New York Times report, the US and Israel have been working in close consultation for months on plans ...

When she was 11 years old, Jane Jacobs trailed along with her great-aunt Hannah Breece as she paid a visit to a nursing home called, regrettably, the Home for the Friendless. Hannah had come to ...

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western ...

Is it particularly surprising, then, that in the face of today’s prevailing winds many a European or North American novelist has consciously ... an unstable world reflecting the old Revolution and the ...

Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, historians are remembering an incident involving gunpowder in Williamsburg that helped ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

South Shore historical societies invite residents to help present fictional play on how locals reacted to start of the ...

Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year. This makes it a big year for one ...

As the nation marks 250 years since the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which ignited the American Revolution, one mystery refuses to die. It’s been called "the shot heard ’round the world ...