Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

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

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

In keeping with tradition, one dramatic beat of the presidential inauguration in January was the Naval Academy Glee Club’s ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

We will officially celebrate the semiquincentennial or 250th birthday of the United States next year on July 4th.

Virginia's flag, and the motto it bears, sic semper tyrannis, offer valuable lessons that are still relevant today.

In my last column, I started the story of Patrick Henry’s legendary “Give Me Liberty” speech, uttered 250 years ago this ...

The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...

Credit: AMNA/Giorgos Vitsaras Leading the parade, which passed by the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, were students from the general high school in Kalavryta, the Peloponnesian town where the ...

COSATU dips its revolutionary flag to salute the martyrs of freedom that were painfully slaughtered on 17 June 1992 by the apartheid regime and its collaborators. The twentieth anniversary of the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland knew that tossing up 46 shots from beyond the arc wasn’t going to fly against Drake. Not like it did in the first round of the NCAA ...