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Americans treated the Declaration as a relic…until these leaders reclaimed it Read More

From Roman freedom to Viking happiness, the iconic words in the Declaration of Independence reveal thousands of years of humans wrestling... Read More

Deborah Sampson survived 17 months of combat, then spent decades in poverty. Did America's first female soldier get the ending she deserved? Read More

Recently discovered documents reveal a back-channel attempt by a leader of the Continental Congress to make peace. (He did not succeed.) Read More

Alongside the Enlightenment reason we associate with the founding there were mystics, occultists, and conspiracy theorists. Read More

America’s struggle for independence from Britain was supported by some highly influential thinkers in 18th-century Britain. Read More

There's a hidden history of the forgotten women who inspired the legend. Read More

Pennsylvania considered tearing down Independence Hall after the state capital moved ot Harrisburg in the 1810s. Read More

American and French forces converged on the Virginia Peninsula to trap the British Army at Yorktown in 1781. Read More

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was a long and bitter conflict fought between Great Britain and its thirteen... Read More

The men who signed the Declaration of Independence were flawed, but what they did in the summer of 1776 changed the world forever – and... Read More

On 1 July 1903 a publicity stunt for a sporting paper cycled into history as the first Tour de France. Read More

Here's where Paraguay's upset of Germany ranks among the five biggest World Cup upsets ever in the knockout stage. Read More

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The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More

What really made a royal bastard, and could illegitimacy be a path to power as much as a barrier?Dr Eleanor Janega is joined by Lauren... Read More

Sara Georgini and Eliga Gould reveal how John Adams designed the Model Treaty to win the American Revolution. Read More

Alice Loxton and Ben Henderson explore the origin story of the British love of tea. Read More

Few places on Earth remain as mysterious and inaccessible as North Sentinel Island. Deep in the Bay of Bengal and surrounded by tropical... Read More

To link the original 13 colonies with territories to the west, American politicians and engineers made bold plans for a long-distance... Read More

From its design and construction to its famous rooms, gardens and renovations, these books trace the history of the W... Read More

These beloved toys helped inspire Pixar’s groundbreaking animated classic. Read More

Dragons may be fictional, but the struggle for the throne, influence and legitimacy in House of the Dragons has roots in conflicts that... Read More

Americans treated the Declaration as a relic…until these leaders reclaimed it Read More

The Time Capsule Act, a 2016 law creating the nonpartisan America250 commission mandated that a time capsule be buried in Philadelphia on... Read More

Competing viewpoints over the direction of the nascent republic manifested in partisan Independence Day festivities during the late 18th... Read More

From George Washington to Jackie Robinson, these 12 figures represent conflict, courage, failure, ambition, and change in American history.... Read More

A visitor standing at the intersection of D’Evereux Drive and Liberty Road today would find little reason to linger. Cars pass through... Read More

Liberty—a word and ideal most closely associated with the Declaration of Independence—came at extraordinary human cost. The... Read More

Shouting “King George and Broadswords” a contingent of 600 Highlander-Americans clad in traditional Scottish Tartan charged... Read More

Eager to end the agony at Valley Forge, General George Washington broke camp in the spring of 1778 and began following the British army from... Read More

Historians often downplay the significance of Roman slavery, but it was the engine of the empire's economy. Read More

The Maginot Line was an extensive series of fortifications built by France through the 1930s to protect its eastern borders from German... Read More

Traditionally depicted as a child-murderer, usurper, and arch-villain, have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded, or is he still one of... Read More

JMC Resident Historian Elliott Drago sat down with JMC network member Randall Fowler to discuss his work on presidential rhetoric and U.S.... Read More

Hawaiian mythology is rich enough without embellishing (or sanitizing) it at the expense of the truth. Read More

Thousands of forgotten news reports are reshaping our understanding of Aurangzeb and the Mughal world. Read More

The highs and the lows on the way to modern America. Read More