How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I.

This spring will mark the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of the events of April 19, 1775. On that day, the ...

Congress was sanguine about the prospects, expecting, as Thomas Jefferson put it, “every hour to be informed that Quebec has ...