A new future for the Chagos is approaching. On April 1st a British government spokesman said that Britain was finalising a ...

At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

Jonny Marshall was only 17, but he had a consequential decision to make. In retrospect, it doesn’t seem that difficult of a ...

still a British colony, from “tyranny and oppression.” Brig. Gen. William Hull, glorying in the sight of the American flag flying over present-day Windsor, Ontario, demanded a cordial welcome ...

That means that two things are true: The West has almost started World War III. And the reason it has not - not yet, at least ...

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

Borden finally got his day in 1911, becoming Canada's eighth prime minister after his party won 132 seats on Sep. 21. The ...

No more than 5 percent of Ukrainians identify themselves as atheists, which also indicates a similarity between the two ...

This man, who seems to have mistaken his role as the leader of a fading imperial Island of Iniquitities, a relic on its last ...

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Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns says he “won’t work on a more important film” than his newest documentary, “The American Revolution.” ...

This spring will mark the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of the events of April 19, 1775. On that day, the ...