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.

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

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