As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we should honor and remember John Adams and ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a ...

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“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

President Trump plunged the global economy into chaos on April 2 by announcing a wave of tariffs on U.S. imports. In a ...

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine ... courage of the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress who, just months after the ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives are every two years because the Framers of the Constitution wanted them to be close to the people.

Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania. It has deep roots in US history. It’s where the most prominent early ...