The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmond, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

They tell you the sixties are the new thirties but if you’re a man nearer seventy on a bus that hasn’t got a toilet in Peru, it doesn’t ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...

Protests erupt in South Africa as demonstrators accuse Ukraine of terrorism, revealing a growing backlash against foreign ...

Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park is located in Eastern Missouri south of St. Louis. The park is one of the newest ...

John Smith, Jamestown has been largely ignored in colonial lore in favor of Massachusetts ... and arrows than a conventional war against Spanish firearms. So the buckler would have come in ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

“We are seeing Franklin when he was not the Benjamin Franklin,” Winterer, who is 47, says one day, looking up from a computer in her office overlooking the Spanish Mission-style buildings of ...

Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.

The Spanish army has received its last remanufactured Boeing CH-47F Chinook transport helicopter, and enhanced its training capabilities for the tandem-rotor type. Delivered on 8 April ...

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...