Among those watching the Lexington reenactment was Brandon Mace, a lieutenant colonel with the Army Reserve whose ancestor ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

In one of his last public acts, Pope Francis gave a message of hope and peace in his Easter Sunday speech at the Vatican only hours before his death.

Cardinals from around the world must gather for the conclave in which Francis’ successor is selected. Who's on the shortlist?

While Pope Francis’s cause of death is not yet known, he long suffered from chronic lung disease and developed double ...

The US administration is dismantling USAID's ideological indoctrination programmes abroad while increasing conservative influence at home, particularly in universities, and cracking down on dissent ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

The pontiff, who died Monday, spoke up in opposition to MAGA policies and suggested in a final statement that they stirred up ...