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Soon, America will celebrate its 250th birthday. As the day approaches, we can look back at the commemorations of four milestone... Read More

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

Archaeologists are uncovering new Revolutionary War secrets at battlefields across America, from Bunker Hill to Camden, as the nation marks... Read More

The American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) was intially a rebellion carried out by the Thirteen Colonies of British... Read More

The conflicts that took place elsewhere in the world have receded from our collective imagination, but the American rebellion was, in many... Read More

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, many Americans are reflecting on the revolution’s... Read More

Creedal nation, English offshoot, Christian country—28 thinkers debate America’s origin. Read More

The Founding Father anticipated “Pomp and Parade” to mark America’s birthday. But he didn’t think it would happen... Read More

The American Revolution was won not just by ideals and armies, but by the strategic trade networks of a small Caribbean port. Read More

We Americans should be proud of the ideals that guided our war of independence and the creation of our republic Read More

This list of 250 events looks beyond the standard timeline of turning points to spotlight the moments—both famous and... Read More

Two hundred and fifty years ago, 13 colonies fought to become the founding states of a new nation. Each of them is intrinsic to the story of... Read More

Impress your friends at this year’s Fourth of July party with these five surprisingly true stories from American history. Read More

Can you sort 25 historical events — before getting three wrong answers? Read More

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

On today’s Saturday Matinee, we widen the lens on one of the famous figures who contributed to the birth of the United States of... Read More

Historians Jane Calvert and Jonathan Gienapp guide us through the drafting, debates, and compromises behind the Articles of Confederation. Read More

What does the Constitution mean to me? That’s a question writer and actor Heidi Schreck asked herself years ago, when she started... Read More

Where DID George Washington come from, and what was he like? How DID he come to take on such a pivotal role in the American Revolution? And,... Read More

7 Essential American History Documentaries for America’s 250th Anniversary, Michael Foust - Read breaking news headlies with a Christian... Read More

In this sweeping work, Sven Beckert demonstrates that far from being a European-centric system, capitalism had a global origin. Capitalism,... Read More

From Troy to Ithaca, where are the real-life places that Odysseus could have visited on his long journey home in Homer’s “The Odyssey”? Read More

In July 1983, Clash of Loyalties was screened for the first – and almost last – time. In 2020, its producer told the BBC about... Read More

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