Merle Rubin is a contributing writer to Book Review. “Albion” could be called a history of the English imagination as it has manifested itself in literature, music and art. But it is less a formal ...

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1963. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division) I read with interest Viet Thanh Nguyen’s May 6 Outlook essay, “Canon fodder.” My colleagues and I agree with Nguyen ...

An archaeologist is taking a second look at a small cannon found by fishermen off the Virginia coast more than two decades ago in hopes of determining how it got to the bottom of the ocean — and who ...

A mysterious cannon found standing upright in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River has surprised historians by proving to be older than originally suspected. The so-called Fortuna cannon — named for the ...

This 3,000-pound iron cannon was found in the Cape Fear River in 2016 and it is believed to be from a Spanish ship that attacked Brunswick Town in 1748, historians say. Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson ...