Bunker Hill Monument is part of the Boston National Historical Park and a stop on the Freedom Trail. The first major battle of the American Revolution took place on Breed's Hill in June 1775 ...

The patriotic obelisk atop the hill also confuses visitors. Most don’t realize it’s the rare American monument to an American defeat. In short, the nation’s memory of Bunker Hill is mostly bunk.

a bunker built in the 1960s to withstand a Soviet nuclear attack. During the Cold War, Canada and the United States built a series of supercomputers — called SAGE — meant to allow the two ...