After an outbreak of disease, an island off the coast of South Carolina became one of the only ‘free-roam’ monkey colonies in ...

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The historical documentary master is at the top of his game in this thrillingly timely history lesson about democracy.

The place is Boston Harbor, and the year is 1774, just after the Boston Tea Party. Your job as colonial sailors forced into ...

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John Winthrop remains the longest-serving Connecticut governor in colonial or modern times at 18 years. He died in 1676.