The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

World / The spectacle of Nicolás Maduro’s capture has drawn attention away from the quieter imposition of systems and power ...

Today, we celebrate the towering life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin—printer and philosopher, inventor and diplomat, public servant and patriot, and one ...

On January 14, 1784, the Second Continental Congress ratified the decisive Treaty of Paris—the binding accord that ended the Revolutionary War, secured ...

As America turns 250, we trace the triumphs, contradictions and arguments that shaped the world’s first liberal republic And ...

Efforts to celebrate America’s 250th birthday kick off in the county on Saturday. The Crawford County Historical Society ...

“In foreign policy, he has discovered he can do whatever the hell he wants,” Steven Levitsky, Harvard professor of government and director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, ...

Thomas Paine’s writing continued to support the Revolution, but once it reached a favorable conclusion, Paine returned to ...

The monarch allegedly said the U.K. would follow the U.S. in its "muscular return to colonialism” amid Venezuela and ...

The Declaration of Independence reaffirmed the right to self-determination—and the uniquely American practice of keeping and ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of ...