As we approach the 250th anniversary next year of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War ...

A new biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born in Concord in 1890, provides evidence that Flynn, a celebrated and maligned labor and political leader for much of the 20th century, fits the bill.  A ...

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On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat ...