Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, who wrote of the "radicalism" of the country’s founding, was killed in a car collision ...

The conflicts that took place elsewhere in the world have receded from our collective imagination, but the American rebellion was, in many ways, a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama.

A free press ignited the American Revolution History matters, especially when it informs the present. As we reflect on the ...

Bernardo de Gálvez indirectly contributed to the Continental Army’s victory at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. A rare painting of ...

Ken Burns' latest project is an expansive documentary about the history of the American Revolution. Premiering Nov. 16 on PBS and airing over six consecutive nights, The American Revolution starts ...

Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...

Colonial Americans were drinking coffee long before they dumped tea into Boston Harbor or fought a war for independence. The ...

Scholars, students, and cultural preservationists gathered at UMass Amherst on Thursday for a conference examining the ...

Throughout US history, social movements—from reformist to radical—have returned to the language and ideals of 1776. Freedom struggle: Frederick Douglass petitions Abraham Lincoln to allow Black ...