A big anniversary looms, as you may have heard. The American Revolution started 250 years ago, on April 19, 1775, in Lexington and Concord. Cue the fifes and drums.

Jane Kamensky, a historian at Brandeis University, is working on a book about John Singleton Copley. She is a co-author of the textbook, A People and a Nation: A History of the United States (Norton).

The Royal Academy of Arts presents Entangled Pasts, 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change ... Joshua Reynolds and Yinka Shonibare. John Singleton Copley and Hew Locke. Past and present collide in one ...

Barrister John Singleton Copley was responsible for conducting the prosecution of Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales and Queen-in-waiting. When George IV ascended to the throne on the death ...