The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” (premiering tonight on PBS). And in 1776, the awful violence of war was centered ...

Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...

America’s fight for independence reverberated around the world in significant ways, which University of Maryland history professor Richard Bell explores in his engaging new book, The American ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns highlighted Rhode Island's significant role in the American Revolution while promoting his new PBS series. Burns identified Nathanael Greene of Coventry as the second most ...

The Battle of Long Island took place on Long Island, but (as most Long Islanders know) not exactly. On Aug. 27, 1776, just weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on Aug. 2, the ...

Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them. By S. C. Gwynne S.C. Gwynne is ...

Discover the 11 most important independence movements in modern history. Learn about the impact, origins, and key facts of ...

The American Revolution of 1776 was driven by the winds of "no taxation without representation" with the original Thirteen ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

Copeland’s valuable book is both a history of the key moments in American foreign trade policy and a theoretical study of what he terms “dynamic realism,” the middle ground between so-called offensive ...