Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

It’s one of Abigail Adams’s most famous lines. Early in 1776 — not even 12 months after the battles of Lexington and Concord — she wrote to her husband, John, who was with the Continental Congress.

Ann Wright is a peace activist, former U.S. diplomat, and retired U.S. Army colonel. In 2003, she resigned from the ...