After losing a bet on a horse race, Moreton Frewen — who would become Winston Churchill’s uncle — declared he was moving to ...

As George Orwell, the celebrated British author and social commentator, wrote in a 1944 newspaper column, “History is written by the winners.” According to my late Aunt Herta, U.S. history is no ...

The place is Boston Harbor, and the year is 1774, just after the Boston Tea Party. Your job as colonial sailors forced into ...

On the Sunday closest to Nov. 11, the United Kingdom commemorates Remembrance Sunday. It’s a solemn day of memory and history where the country uniformly pauses to acknowledge those who served and ...

While patriots fought against the British in the American Revolution 250 years ago on the East Coast, people in the San Diego region were on a parallel track of new beginnings and their own rebellion.