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.

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 current Philippine flag with its blue and red horizontal bands, white triangle, golden sun, and three stars has become the internationally recognized symbol of Filipino identity. It is, however, ...

The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia colonists to prepare for war against an increasingly punitive Great Britain, just ...

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 ...

The final twist is that, in 1776, Shay murders ... surroundings during the French Revolution, while the modern-day storyline was... almost nonexistent. Black Flag and Rogue kept it to a minimum ...