Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, and blue number—“250”—emblazoned just beneath the president’s ...

It was telling that the last pop culture sensation to tackle the American Revolution—the 2015 musical Hamilton—felt that the best way to make the nation’s founding legible to modern audiences was to ...

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 ...

How has the idea of revolution changed? A new history examines the long history of a radical and sometimes conservative concept. The storming of the Bastille. Here’s a puzzle: Must revolution always ...

"What do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war?" former President John Adams asked in a letter to a magazine publisher in 1818, eight years before America’s 50th birthday.

America was forged by muskets and ink, and it is the ink that has enabled the freedom we celebrate today. That freedom was ...

His life tells a story of slavery and freedom in the North before the American Revolution This Spanish Officer Besieged the ...