Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

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.

Paul Revere raced through the Massachusetts country side on horseback to warn patriot leaders that British soldiers were on ...

Australian politicians, many of whom served themselves, reflect on the meaning of Anzac Day. Anzac Day has always been ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United ... s offer of $300 per man to let them go.) After the war ended in 1865, eighteen black soldiers returned to Talbot County—including Charles ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

An upcoming poetry festival will be a reflection on Amanda Gorman’s poem “Chorus of the Captains,” which she recited at the Super Bowl in 2021.

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

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