In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at ...

The already strained relationship between Britain and the fledgling U.S. hit a boiling point in the early 19th century.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

It’s the middle of April, in ’Twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry ...

The winter winds howled across the Upper Great Lakes, the kind that cut to the bone and warned of hard times ahead. But inside her trading post, Madeline Laframboise stood firm. A Métis businesswoman, ...

Judges in Texas and New York said they would temporarily bar the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts ...