The Bostonian is best known for his perilous horseback journey 250 years ago. But scholars say his art helped fan the flames ...

The layers of irony, hypocrisy, and colonial rule here run deep. In the name of “protecting” democratic values, Truman felt ...

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The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Alamy “Plague on you,” cries Brother Jonathan in an 1813 political cartoon. He wears a colonial hat and a mischievous smile as he assaults a Redcoat with a mug of fermented pear juice.

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On April 11, nine UC Riverside graduate students presented their research at the 11th annual UCR Grad Slam Final for a chance ...

As she guided colonial America ... to ‘the asylum of the oppressed,’” reads the caption of a political cartoon published in 1881. Her image was used to help rally millions of immigrants ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...