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 ...

The Luddites lost the fight to save their livelihoods. As the threat of artificial intelligence looms, can we do any better?

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 ...

Jews around the world will retell the Passover story. Why? Because, as Exodus 22:20, Exodus 23:9, Deuteronomy 10:9, and ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

This excerpt from the introduction to The Satoshi Papers explores how the rise of the sovereign individual challenges the modern state, tracing the shift from America’s founding principles to today’s ...

President Trump has invoked a rarely used 1798 law that gives a president immense powers to arrest and deport noncitizens in ...

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