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

Explore the roots of the American Revolution in this animated documentary. From the end of the French and Indian War to the Boston Massacre, we examine the growing tensions between Britain and the ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians: "250 years later, is the spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

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

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Movie actor Kurt Russell and his son Boston are in Massachusetts for July 4th after learning a man in their family from<a ...

Forgive me, I’m on a movie kick. I wrote about the 50th anniversary of Jaws last week. Besides, for this holiday column, I ...

Shahzia Sikander's "The Last Post," a video installation at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, mesmerizes as an abstracted examination of colonialism.

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

Buy Photo This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, or, more accurately, Breed's Hill, ...

For Christian de Rezendes, the documentary has been a labor of love, one he didn't expect to grow so big and take so long.