William Maxwell and John Witherspoon were immigrants to the then-British colony of New Jersey, who each played a role during the Revolutionary War.

The SNP’s Lara Bird and the Conservatives’ Douglas Lumsden made their maiden speeches from the green benches on Tuesday.

If anything, the evidence suggests that the psychodrama of English politics is having a negative impact on our ability to ...

SNP Westminster leader Dave Doogan spoke out after the man expected to succeed Sir Keir Starmer delivered a speech in ...

Fans were ecstatic as South Africa qualified for the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time in its history. Thapelo ...

An influential political figure who shunned the limelight, Murrell's crimes placed him in the full glare of publicity.

Peter Murrell has been jailed for five years and three months, a jail sentence which marks a complete fall from grace for a man who had once been half of Scotland’s most powerful couple.

Marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, Cormac Ó hEadhra explores the Irish men and women who helped win the war and give birth to the United States. July 2026 marks the 250th ...

Each summer, the Common Ridings—among the world’s largest and oldest equestrian spectacles—culminate in a grand party in more than a dozen charming Scottish towns. But their origins are much less ...

A powerful new documentary uncovers the stories of Black Americans who fought to define democracy during the American Revolution, ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary. PBS announced that a new one ...

A.O. Scott is a Times critic who writes about literature and ideas. “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem,” Walt Whitman wrote, but the nation was conceived in prose. Other ...

The documentary often gets a bad rap. Maybe you watched a few boring (or prescriptive) ones in school, in which talking heads drone on about what you ought to think or feel. However, despite its ...