Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

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

The birth of our country may feel like a familiar story. But in making a documentary about it, we found plenty of revelations ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

With the shot heard around the world and launching the American Revolution fired in Massachusetts, this April will mark a major milestone for the Commonwealth. To honor the occasion, reenactors in ...

The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France ...

Now, and for some years to come, we will need a lot less Paul Weiss, and a lot more Benjamin Warner.

A deal between Hamas and Israel that the president trumpeted has collapsed, after the White House seemed to lose interest in the process ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory ...

The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...

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 ...