Kavitha Rao revives the forgotten legacy of two extraordinary freedom fighters, M.N. Roy and Virendranath Chattopadhyay, in ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

George Washington is an American icon for many important reasons. As the Continental Army’s commander-in-chief and the ...

What is Massachusetts famous for? It's one of the original states in New England that achieved independence from the English.

The great explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, is buried ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave ...

An Imperial History. Antidote to apologias for the US intelligence agency, a periodization from the Truman Doctrine to the ‘war on terror’.

The 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord kicks off what local historians hope will be many events to ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

NEW YORK -- The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin. Starting with ...

Like all legendary events, Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battles of Lexington and Concord have been encrusted with myth.