Here’s a great property for fans of the “great charter.” The home built on the English island where King John signed the Magna Carta in 1215 is available for sale, priced at 4.25 million British ...

In just a few weeks, fireworks will illuminate the night sky, parades will proceed down Main Streets, and the American people, even while social distancing, will pause to celebrate the Fourth of July, ...

An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England. The tattered document dates back to 1300, 85 years after King John of England was compelled to sign the first ...

The papacy’s role as organizer of the Crusades empowered it to ask for—indeed, to demand—tithes from churches and royal tax assessments from realms ruled by the warlord dynasties it had installed and ...

RUNNYMEDE, ENGLAND – When Queen Elizabeth II stepped on to the meadows of Runnymede on Monday, a great feeling of pride and affection swept the thousands who had gathered on the June-green grass to ...

Boston — Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it had purchased for less than $30. But two researchers have ...