Tyrese Maxey scored six of his 36 points in overtime, Joel Embiid had 32 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists and the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Houston Rockets 128-122.

Keyonte George scored a career-high 43 points, Jusuf Nurkic recorded his second career triple-double, and the Utah Jazz ...

War of 1812 veteran Shadrack Byfield's second book describes a grittier life story—and a hook for a hand.

With Napoleon focused on Russia, Wellington saw his moment. At Salamanca, he delivered a crushing blow that changed the course of the Peninsular War.

The Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland is a beautiful place to visit. The Michelin Guide recommends you stay in a hotel owned by ...

The harsh realities of life as a disabled war veteran in Victorian Britain is revealed in a redcoat’s lost memoir. A ...

A musket ball shattered Byfield ’s left forearm in 1814, nine days after the bloody nighttime fight at Lundy’s Lane, a ...

Actor Chris McKay playing Shadrack Byfield (centre) in the 2011 PBS documentary 'The War of 1812'. This battle scene ...

History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the ...

Archival discoveries including a 19th-century autobiography transform our understanding of Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and designed a ...

Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose "What Hath God Wrought" became a widely acclaimed chronicle of the vast technological and social changes in the U.S. in the first half of ...