Historians around the state are revisiting the nation's origin story with fresh eyes, centering on communities that have ...

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

Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary journey began in the 1760s and culminated in his masterfully written Declaration of Independence in 1776. But in between these events, Jefferson crafted one of the ...

Being a storyteller is just fine with the journalist turned historian. “The Fate of the Day,” the second volume in his ...

Royal authorities wanted to send some Colonial lawbreakers to Britain for trial. That incensed Americans, especially ...

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

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

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

Precolonial byway was important Native American trade route later used by military in American Revolution and Civil War, ...

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

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 ...