Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to ...

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American Revolution provided world of Enlightenment chance to see if philosophy, politics game they had been engaged in could ...

Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first internal tax on the American colonies, and thus began a decade of missteps by the ...

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

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

It was much more than a war. The shot that launched the American Revolution was “heard ’round the world,” not because of ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...

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

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

The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the nation’s founding. Flora stayed in the Portsmouth area, operating ...