The American Revolution was a turning point in modern history. It was one of the first successful movements to overthrow ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered self-evident since 1776.

Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world” that began the American Revolution. Next year, the Declaration of Independence, and with it our nation, turns 250 ...

This was the first naval operation in American history. And things turned out pretty great. The eight-ship squadron left The Bahamas with a whole bunch of loot and a few British hostages to boot.

It can be hard telling the local story of a revolution, especially in a city where the local story was the story.The American Philosophical Society’s first new exhibit related to America’s ...