The common enemy of the first Franco-British rapprochement in the 1840s was the Metternich system, the reactionary absolutism ...

CAHOKIA HEIGHTS - The Jarrot Mansion State Historic Site, the oldest brick building in Illinois, will open to the public on ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

This is the French national day which celebrates the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris, which signalled the start of the French Revolution. Bastille Day is the common name ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Nostradamus, the 16th-century French astrologer and physician, gained fame for his cryptic prophecies in 'Les Prophéties'.

Henry Bessemer's seasickness-proof vessel shows how even great inventors sometimes become fixated on crackpot ideas.

The President’s ambitions were Jupiterian. Now they lie in ashes.

An article by Sam Dolgoff (using the pen name "Sam Weiner") advocating that a 'united front' against fascism should also be ...

The violin by the famed Italian luthier was plundered at the end of World War II and presumed lost or destroyed. Now experts ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

America’s independence wasn’t declared in a day — it was forged through years of unrest, resistance, and revolution. This powerful chronicle traces th ...