The secret meetings took place in December 1775 at Carpenters' Hall and helped lead to a critical supply of ammunitions and ...

Overcoming the contradiction between dream and reality, they believed, would complement the class struggle between the global proletariat and its bourgeois oppressors. Surrealism was much more than a ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and the tragedies of the nation’s ...

Later in life, he rejected the foundational document as a failure More than 100 objects connected to the French emperor just sold at auction. The collection sheds light on the man and the myth in ...

Tens of thousands of Filipinos protested against corruption over flood relief funds. In Nepal, anti-corruption protests ...

The Revolutionary War began 250 years ago this year, but it would not be until over six years later, for all intents and purposes, that it came to an end with a victory over the British at Yorktown, ...

Republicans remain highly patriotic while their party hollows out America’s democratic institutions and their leader flirts with kingship, as if their love of country has nothing to do with its ...

You could say that Commodore John Barry, Irish-born hero of the American Revolution, has been AWOL in Boston for nearly half a century.

“A magazine, when properly conducted, is the nursery of genius; and by constantly accumulating new matter, becomes a kind of market for wit and utility.” Thomas Paine made this (true) statement in ...

JAMES ISLAND, Sc. (WTVM) - Recently, a flag-raising ceremony was held to honor the raising of the first South Carolina Flag. That was 250 years ago, amidst the Revolutionary War. “We got a lot to be ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that anyone who burns the American flag "will be immediately arrested" and face a one-year prison term, citing his Aug. 25 executive order on flag desecration. "To ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Americans, and Philadelphians in particular, might think they ...