In doing so, Paine democratized political thought. He asserted that ordinary people were capable of understanding, judging, ...

The University of Kentucky’s Department of History is honoring the anniversary of the nation's founding with their ...

A gripping graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Leo Trinidad. Nathaniel Fox never imagined ...

What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how alike we are right now to those folks in 1776. Take away the tricorn hats and ruffled shirts ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

The Battle of Long Island took place on Long Island, but (as most Long Islanders know) not exactly. On Aug. 27, 1776, just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, the ...

The grand events and oft-told tales of the American Revolution are easy to find among sprawling reverent battlefields and national parks. George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia, Independence ...

A historic copy of the Declaration of Independence will be on display at the Museum of the American Revolution as part of a new exhibit the opens this fall. The poster-sized copy of the Declaration, ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...