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 ...

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

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.

Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr.

Washington’s troops won the ground war, but today's left and right are waging war on the ideals of the Revolution.

Follow the American Revolution through a modern lens as Google Earth brings historic battlefields, colonial cities, and key ...

Bernardo de Gálvez indirectly contributed to the Continental Army’s victory at the 1781 Siege of Yorktown. A rare painting of him is now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery ...

Economic and social origins of the American Revolution / Louis M. Hacker -- A note on the economic interpretation / Charles M. Andrews -- Were the Navigation Acts oppressive? / Oliver M. Dickerson -- ...

Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine and the Declaration of Independence all turned to divine sanction to make the case for breaking with Britain ...

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 ...

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