As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

War, even the American Revolution, is the health of the state because it is almost impossible to avoid fighting a war on ...

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

This is the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. The celebrations have begun, notably the Boston Tea ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

While hunters and their rifles helped wage psychological warfare, the American victory can actually be attributed to ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in ...

The musical sights and sounds of the American Revolution have been on display recently with the new Marietta Chapter Sons of ...

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for ...