In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel for young readers, a girl in Boston must survive a dangerous smallpox epidemic—and ...

But even though I have a hard time envisioning these historic events occurring in my hometown as it is today, sometimes when I wake up early on a mid-April day, smell dew on the green grass of the ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

Each of us has the power to speak out against the ruination of our democracy. Write a letter, call your representatives, ...

The painting, The Crossing, bears a resemblance to Washington Crossing the Delaware, an 1851 oil painting by Emanuel Leutze that depicts General George Washington with the Continental Army on the ...

1776, during the Revolutionary War. However, instead of soldiers, the boat in Griffin’s version contains 10 lemmings. Get a dash of perspective along with the trending news of the day in a very ...

Thus the rise of capitalism cannot be disassociated from drug use as was the case with opium which the Chinese were forced to ...

Thousands of people came to this Massachusetts town just before dawn Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American ...