Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

The Revolution was one of the most important historical events of the past 2,000 years. It established the world’s most ...

As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians "250 years later, is the Spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of ...