As the 250th anniversary of America’s independence approaches, the president is moving to put his stamp on how the nation’s ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

George Washington leaving ... Dunbar’s father, a supporter of independence, reportedly offered to supply the hemp for the hanging. What Americans call the Civil War (1861-1865) was actually ...

John Adams and John Quincy Adams were public figures who made significant contributions to the founding and expansion of the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – You can learn about a historic Charleston home’s powerful connection to the American Revolutionary War through ... hosted George Washington when he visited Charleston ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, people today take freedom for granted. Henry knew it would be very valuable, ...

The BBC's Katty Kay speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Rick Atkinson as America marks 250 years since ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts Minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War ... Gen. George Washington seized Dorchester Heights ...

Chris Anderson was leafing through various books in Allegheny College’s archival collection when he came across a long “lost” artifact. “I was planning an event and I was looking randomly through some ...

Google and Meta are both under breakup threat at once. Apple and Amazon’s trials are next. And through it all, Washington wonders — will Trump bail them all out?

NEW YORK (AP) — The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin. Starting with Saturday's anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the ...