Long before the Declaration of Independence was signed, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain were already boiling ...

Outraged by the Intolerable Acts, the Colonies decided to meet in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the first ...

American colonists oppose efforts by the British Crown and Parliament to seize greater control in North America, escalating simmering tensions over land, taxes, and sovereignty into violent ...

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different.

Renée Graham is correct about the power of keeping people ignorant about slavery (“How white supremacy weaponizes ignorance,” Opinion, June 16). One of the most important books about the effect of ...

An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...

American Revolution history often gets packed into clean little stories. That makes it easy to remember, but not always ...

What makes "Freedom Round the Globe" especially valuable right now is that it resists two temptations simultaneously: patriotic simplification and fashionable cynicism.