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

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

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...

Approximately 20 students staged a sit-in inside the Administration Building on Wednesday, March 26, marking the anniversary ...

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

For two months, liberals have asked themselves when the widespread, street-scale mobilization to oppose Donald Trump will ...

Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...

The classic era of Assassin's Creed is full of wonderful nostalgia. Here are the entries from that time that still hold up ...

Hanoi, a city of a hundred lakes, has an island in the centre called Banana Island. No marks for guessing what it grows!

The American Revolution was brought to life for fifth-grade students at Village Elementary School who took a historic field ...

We asked our readers to share their very favorite spots in their home states, and they delivered with insider tips, personal ...