For the anniversary of the Boston Massacre, Paul Meany examines how ancient and Enlightenment thinkers ultimately influenced ...

ELEUTHERA, Bahamas—On March 3, 1776 – 250 years ago next week – Commodore Esek Hopkins of the new U.S. Continental Navy sailed to the Bahamian island of New Providence, just 50 nautical miles due west ...

On Mar. 2, Yale University history professor and award-winning author Ned Blackhawk gave a remarkable lecture about the American Revolution’s indigenous origins.

As we celebrate the Centennial of the birth of Murray Rothbard, we look at his commentary on the American Revolution, where it promoted liberty and where the ...

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, NPCA highlights a few of the women who influenced the success of the patriot ...

Michael Pollan tells Scientific American why the science of consciousness may ultimately be too subject to our own conscious ...

What William Grimes wanted John Quincy Adams to know about freedom on the 50th anniversary of the country’s founding ...

In this sense, American democracy functions almost as a covenant passed forward — renewed not by law alone but by example.

Sign up for The Unfinished Revolution, our newsletter course in which Atlantic writers and editors explore 250 years of the American experiment. In 1796, in the waning months of his presidency, George ...

Kelly notes that Paine is a somewhat forgotten Founding Father, though most American History courses mention Paine’s Common Sense and The American Crisis, best known for its stirring line “These are ...

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, ...

Whatever happened to America First? It doesn’t feel like a war with Iran was quite what Donald Trump campaigned on in 2024.