This is the sixteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

The 1980 execution of four American churchwomen was one of the most shocking human rights crimes of the twentieth century. No ...

“Infantry, cavalry, artillery—everybody was fleeing ... this was the costliest single day of the 23 years of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Between 25,000 and 31,000 Frenchmen were ...

From a force of revolutionary irregulars that set up and pulled down governments ... Mexico is strategically very important because of her supply of many metals and minerals vital to American war ...

These events and their impact on French painters are detailed in the art critic Sebastian Smee’s absorbing new book, Paris in Ruins: Love, War ... Renoir served in the cavalry.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition to good strategy and the timely appearance of key allies like the ...

John J. Casseday was the only member of his family's five men to return to SE Minnesota after the Civil War. John J. Casseday, photographed in his army uniform, was part of a family that sent five ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts Minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts was a host for several key happenings ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts was a host for several key happenings ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. It began with the "Shot heard 'round the world" on April 19, 1775 in Lexington and it marked the ...

The town of Concord, Massachusetts held a parade Saturday to mark 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War. A dawn salute was held at Old North Bridge in Concord on Saturday morning ...