The city founded by William Penn not only had facilities—the State House (later Independence Hall) and Carpenters’ Hall—large ...

Throughout the 1760s, patriots met there to protest royal taxes, and in 1773, Samuel Adams initiated the Boston Tea Party from the hall’s lectern. ... National Portrait Gallery.

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Stygian” means having the characteristics of death, but the word kept a lawmaker alive in a spelling competition Wednesday night.

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Two centuries after his downfall, Napoleon remains both revered and controversial in France — but above all, unavoidable.

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King painted from life Indian leaders of at least twenty tribes. These portraits were later handsomely reproduced as hand colored lithographs in Thomas McKenney and James Hall’s three-volume classic, ...