The distance in the march from the American Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence is almost beyond comprehension.

Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, eventually threw his notes and documents for a planned memoir of the Revolution into the fire. "America's revolutionary ...

Historian Eric Jay Dolin will discuss his book on American Revolution privateers at an upcoming West Bridgewater lecture.

In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on her American colonies that were met with increasing disdain and violence. In Boston, when officials came to regulate documents under the ...

Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off the American Revolutionary War, a group known as the Daughters of Liberty formed to protest the Stamp Act, per University ...

The American Revolution was one of the most radical acts in human history, casting aside centuries of monarchical despotism in favor of a representative system of rule—and the inherent rights of ...

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A centuries’ old “witness tree” that survived not only the Revolutionary War but a direct hit from lightning is facing yet another existential threat. Ironically, the famous ...

PBS has released a brand-new documentary series The American Revolution, which is directed by Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein. The docu-series shows the true story of how the United States fought for ...

Lander University will host the American Revolution Experience, an innovative, traveling exhibition, Oct. 16-29 at the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

Throughout US history, social movements—from reformist to radical—have returned to the language and ideals of 1776. Freedom struggle: Frederick Douglass petitions Abraham Lincoln to allow Black ...