The big point, however, is that globalisation is evolving, with some high-profile areas in retreat but other, less obvious ones still growing. The prize of a more harmonious trading environment is out ...

As the flames rose across the capital on that sweltering August evening, the American government’s decision two years earlier ... Hickey. “England had been at war with France for over two ...

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

Massachusetts will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War. We asked reenactors, historians, and museum directors what lessons Americans can take from the founders.

Ever wonder why Haiti is a poor country with rampant corruption and violent crime? Grab a seat, mon ami. France enslaved the ...

S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...

Today’s religious identities have more to do with political decisions made centuries ago than with personal faith.

The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to revolution was paved long before gunfire erupted on that cold April morning ...

The Aroostook War? It was another 19th-century border dispute, in Maine, which the United States and England settled bloodlessly ... the U.S. population, and 17 years is a long time.