In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

The English Civil Wars is more than a history of a war, or even of a cluster of wars. Worden’s avowed subject is ‘the range of conflicts, military and political, of the 1640s and 1650s’. So we have ...

Bess Wohl’s moving new play, about a group of women in 1970s Ohio, explores the power of sisterhood and the limits of ...

During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

James Madison University professor Rebecca Brannon studies age and the American Revolution. She says her students are often ...

Nearly all of the remaining major 250th anniversaries in Massachusetts will happen over the next 13 months, coinciding with the evacuation of British troops from Boston in March 1776.

Salem on the Brink of Revolution” will honor the militia members and residents, who blocked access over the North River ...

Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George ...

A letter from the renowned English scientist Sir Isaac Newton predicted when the world would end as we know it. The warning, ...

The English We Speak is your chance to catch up on the very latest English words and phrases. In under 3 minutes, we help you stay ahead of the pack by giving you 'must have' phrases that you can ...

Whilst the scientific revolution of the 17th century had spread ideas of rationalism and experimentation, and the industrial revolution had transformed the production of goods in the late 18th ...

At a mass rally of one million people, Castro reveals the class content of his revolution. "Cuba's revolutionary government was like that of ancient Athens," he said, "except better, because Cuba ...