Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

The Revolution was one of the most important historical events of the past 2,000 years. It established the world’s most ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians "250 years later, is the Spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, ...

Peachtree City celebrated the nation’s 249th birthday with, as usual, a festive parade. Spectators arrived dressed in red, ...