From now until Oct. 19, 2031, when we mark the final defeat of the British Army at Yorktown, Americans will be celebrating ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement, which was read out by Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican ...

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

As the US president rapidly escalates pressure on South Africa in the name of white citizens, we must stand up for reason and ...

Rhode Island continued to be the most rebellious of the 13 U.S. colonies in the 18th century, earning the nickname "Rogue ...

Alliances and antagonisms among European colonial powers varied ... Although Winthrop’s Connecticut could be stricter in religion than Puritan Massachusetts, with the founding of New York ...

Jordan King is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her current focus is on religion, health ... when the island was still a Danish colony and Denmark was occupied by Nazi Germany.

Connecticut. The Boston News-Letter started its publication in 1704; it was the only newspaper in the colonies for the next 15 years. For Franklin, it starts early. In 1717, having alarmed his ...

A neighbor from Connecticut remembered that Benedict Arnold ... The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony’s founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds ...

[3] Britain influenced the colonies more than any other country ... Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Connecticut raised death crimes from six to ten, including sodomy, maiming, robbery, and forgery.

There’s a place in Connecticut where the clam chowder is so legendary that rational adults have been known to drive two hours just for a single bowl. Welcome to Mystic, where the chowder doesn’t just ...