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It will come as a surprise to many Americans, justly proud of the unparalleled right to free expression granted them by their Constitution, to learn that the first country in the world to abolish censorship was Denmark in 1770. Well over 200 years later, the Danish government and people held admirably firm in defense of this heritage when a group of imams whipped up thousands of their co-religionists around the world into a violent rage over a Danish newspaper’s publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Today, according to Reporters Without Borders, Denmark ranks as the fourth-best countr...

In "A Brave and Cunning Prince," James Horn — of Jamestown Rediscovery — draws on evidence and, necessarily, informed speculation to portray the life, lineage and impact of a Native leader of the first Anglo-Indian Wars in Virginia.

It was Colonial North Carolina's original political center and the site of an early rebellion -- Pasquotank County, its people, history educational institutions and economy are part of what makes this the regional anchor.

The more time I spend in elite circles, the less comfortable I am with the way they treat people like me.

Archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia, have uncovered burnt deposits dating from a church burned to the ground in the first revolt in the colonies, a century before the American Revolution.