In the quiet corners of a Leicestershire manor house, a volume of immense historical gravity lay overlooked for nearly three centuries. Bound in weathered leather and emblazoned with the royal monogram of Mary I, the book—a 1555 edition of Polydore Vergil’s Anglica Historia—is far more than a mere chronicle of English kings. It contains a […]

CORNWALL, ENGLAND — Deep beneath the churning, cold waters of the Atlantic, where the light of the sun fails to penetrate and the pressure of the ocean crushes all but the most specialized equipment, a century-old mystery has finally been laid to rest. A team of British technical divers has confirmed the discovery of the […]

Nearly every American schoolchild can recite the basics of Paul Revere’s "midnight ride." On the night of April 18, 1775, the Boston silversmith galloped through the Massachusetts countryside to warn that British "regulars" were approaching. Yet, history has largely obscured a secondary, equally perilous mission Revere undertook that same night: a desperate race to rescue […]