I When the cleric Robert Braybrooke, newly come from the sleepy deanery of Salisbury, began his tenure as Bishop of London on Jan. 5, 1382, the embers of rebellion were still smoldering in the Kingdom of England. The Peasants’ Revolt…

Benjamin Franklin, an Englishman born in the colonial town of Boston in 1706 but who chose to separate himself from the rule of a tyrannical British government as one of our American Founding Fathers, once wrote that “People willing to…

Today, Catherine, Princess of Wales, released a heartfelt two-minute video in which she disclosed that she has been diagnosed with cancer. With her trademark grace, Princess Kate thanked well-wishers and neatly sidestepped the furtive rumors that have enveloped her for…