Canada likes to present itself as a nation with its own clean, separate identity — but many of its most distinctive ethnic communities were shaped by events that happened in or around the United ...

Forget Lexington. Forget Bunker Hill. The first battle of the American Revolution — the one that made revolution possible, although not inevitable — was James Wolfe’s posthumous triumph on the Plains ...

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different.

What if we hadn’t listened to the fiery blandishments of the slightly unhinged agitator Sam Adams, who called the free citizens of Boston “tributary slaves”? Suppose we had just paid those annoying ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...