The effort to make Canada the 14th colony had proved a failure. Although it was never a colony, Vermont, not Canada, would become the 14th state.

Three figures apparently from the 1770s reappeared Monday during the Select Board meeting to remind residents of historic ...

The Oshkosh Northwestern published letters to the editor concerning the National Day of Prayer and the concept of a Messiah.

Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing ...

On April 19, 1775, our forefathers were fed up with a tyrant, George III, and "fired the shot heard 'round the world." In ...

Vermont history was on display for fourth graders on Ticonderoga raid’s 250th anniversary weekend in Bennington.

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 ...

A projection of a poem by artist Tracey Emin is set to light up the Turner Contemporary to mark the 250th birthday of the ...

Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced ...

By April of 1775, John Hancock (the Braintree native ... which was a critical position because it oversaw the flow of letters, documents and newspapers, which was the main way that information ...

The letters, especially ... Army officer Thomas Gage gave orders for the Concord Expedition on April 18, 1775. The materials provide fresh insight into the mood among the colonials and the ...

In a letter to an unknown friend ... “On the evening of the eighteenth of April, 1775 we received two messages; the first verbal, the other by express, in writing, from the committee of safety ...