There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...

A BRILLIANT new play written and performed by the Scottish poet Martin O’Connor probes his early years with his ...

The revolutionary Scotsman, who created in his Lanarkshire garden 'Little Sparta', would have turned 100 this year ...

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Patriots’ Day weekend is truly one of the great New England rites of spring.  A small army of Islanders marched off to Lexington and Concord to observe the re-enactments and the parades on the 250th ...

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson’s esteemed biographer ... clerk produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings and, most daring of all, a play longer than most ...

After being taught to read and write by the daughter of her enslaving family, she rose to local and then international fame as a poet ... the British writer Samuel Johnson asked sarcastically ...

Paul Revere’s midnight ride was commemorated with an official White House statement and video on Friday, while in Boston ...

In the first two years after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the number of abortions ...

Matthew Johnson of the National Lancers took up the ... the countryside to alert colonial militias and warn patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington. Although he was stopped ...