Why did so many American colonials take arms against the ruling British, even when the odds were stacked against them? Dr.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, who wrote of the "radicalism" of the country’s founding, was killed in a car collision in a parking lot ...

Rep. Ben Cline introduced a bill requiring the Daughters of the American Revolution to limit membership to biological women ...

Michael Scurr, a retired insurance broker, found the text while cataloging boxes of 18th-century correspondence housed at the ...

I’m a proud descendant of Jane Trail West, an American patriot from South Carolina who furnished critical supplies to the ...

Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...

The conflicts that took place elsewhere in the world have receded from our collective imagination, but the American rebellion was, in many ways, a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama.

Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" is one of the most iconic images of the American Revolution. It's as ...

Joplin’s Sgt. Ariel Nims Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution joined in a simultaneous nationwide reading of the Declaration of Independence on Wednesday. The Joplin event was held at the ...

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