Women played far more active roles in the American Revolution than just the familiar stories of camp followers and homemakers ...

Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off the American Revolutionary War, a group known as the Daughters of Liberty formed to protest the Stamp Act, per University ...

How does Lindsay Chervinsky characterize the Battle of Brooklyn? How did this battle change George Washington's strategy? Why is it important for the American people to know about this battle?

On Aug. 27-29, 1776, George Washington suffered a defeat that nearly resulted in his capture, along with much of the ...

The Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution it launched were unique because they were focused on ...

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Throughout US history, social movements—from reformist to radical—have returned to the language and ideals of 1776. Freedom struggle: Frederick Douglass petitions Abraham Lincoln to allow Black ...

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 ...

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...