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 ...

and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. PLANS to demolish the John Paul Jones pub in Whitehaven town centre have been approved to ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on April 2, 2005, one of his closest collaborators says the Polish pontiff lives on in the hearts and memories of the many people who still feel ...

While we strive to preserve heritage wherever possible, we also recognise that buildings left to fall into disrepair – like the John Paul Jones pub – can become both a blight on the community ...

Next time you right-click on a mouse, thank Paul Allen. In the early 1980s, before the Microsoft co-founder left the company, he made the call to go with two green buttons on the beige Microsoft ...

It's a collaboration that Jones is thrilled to be a part of, alongside Red Roses teammate Ella Wyrwas and Wales' Jasmine Joyce, noting its revolutionary ... head coach John Mitchell's comments ...

The trio’s scheming became a crucial element of the fledgling nation’s success in the Revolutionary War America's 250th Anniversary How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward ...

What if our glorious Revolution was a terrible mistake? How would we have fared as subjects of the Crown? First off, there would have been no need for the grandiose rebranding. No new flags ...