But the Father of the Country was uncomplaining, unlike the Crybaby of the Country we have now. “I just can’t imagine two ...

Some of the generals and politicians egging the soldiers on hoped that George Washington would take up his men's cause and in ...

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A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting ...

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

Fourth of July streaming spikes revive classic patriotic films as audiences seek history, nostalgia and Americana.

Few figures did more to build modern Canada than William Van Horne. The irrepressible railroad executive drove the laying of ...

“I must study war and diplomacy so that my children may study mathematics and science so that their children may study art and philosophy,” wrote John Adams as he explained his sense of duty and how ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...