Madame Tussauds, now a global wax museum brand, has its roots in the French Revolution, where Marie Tussaud crafted death ...

(adoc-photos/Corbis) Napoleon completes the two ... this was the costliest single day of the 23 years of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Between 25,000 and 31,000 Frenchmen were killed ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts was a host for several key happenings during ...

Their stories were not well preserved in art or textbooks, yet recent scholarship in Concord and Lexington aims to uncover ...

Patriots Day 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution at the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

In a tribute to the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War, the USPS has released a new stamp pane.

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

The wealthy owners of Staatsburgh, a historic Gilded Age mansion outside New York City, had tickets for the Titanic's second ...

Tehran is ready to ease US concerns over its nuclear activities but scrapping uranium enrichment is off the table, Foreign ...

The actor and musician Jeff Bridges discusses how to “let it do you,” why almost dying was a gift, and his new album, “Slow Magic,” in an interview with Amanda Petrusich. The danger behind ...

The Crimean War, when British ... Victorian purchasers unwilling to buy. Instead, Fenton made pictures of officers, ships in the harbor, men in camp, views of Sevastopol and the plain of Balaklava.

You’re taller in the morning than at night Here’s a weird fact about the human body: When you wake up in the morning, you’re ...