Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Higher education is under siege from the Trump administration. Those opposing this siege and the administration’s attacks on ...

James Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, insisted upon referring to speech as “the” freedom of speech, so as to ...

It was 1775 and tensions were rising between Great Britain and the 13 colonies of North American, led by George Washington.

Accomplishments: That could be a personal accomplishment such as running a 10K race, learning a new language or joining a ...

A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

We speak with Madelaine Drohan, senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International ...

If Big Law does not stand up to Trump, his administration will be emboldened to push for more concessions—further eroding ...

Bensalem’s Growden Mansion was once owned by wealthy Joseph Galloway and Benjamin Franklin and son William were regular ...

Mail carriers, their colleagues and supporters packed the Mitchell Road sidewalk in front of the Ceres Post Office on Sunday ...

A spirit of independence had been growing throughout the middle ... The victims of the Boston Massacre are buried there also, ...