We are living through an historical transformation in the nature of American power. The fourth rupture in the country’s short history, the current social movements cascading across America’s ...

How people of color participated in the American Revolution in Massachusetts and beyond Massachusetts is marking the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago with several events this weekend.

“The American Revolution has always been surrounded by myth that keeps us from seeing the real picture,” said Ken Burns. “The story of the birth of this country is at once devastating and ...

Lawler: Most of us know the story of how the American Revolution began in the North, because we all know about the Boston Tea Party.

President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered self-evident since 1776.

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...

The romance and myths of the American Revolution have long obscured the disproportionate contributions of the Irish, who numbered as high as one-half million of America’s two million population ...

If you think the American Revolution was an isolated conflict between Great Britain and the American colonies, you know only part of the story. A new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of ...

Remembering the economic reasons behind the American Revolution, 250 years later The American colonists had a list of economic grievances, but only one of them involved tea.

Our core values are crumbling like never before, though America’s revolution is happening largely through internal decay rather than violent coup.

We can also expect a story about the American Revolution that sounds much like the one featured in 1970, a narrative of our country’s founding that underpins Trump’s politics just as it did ...