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.

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

Any worthwhile list of Pantheon-level American icons must include men like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. In their day, those great men sometimes quarreled and ...

The American Revolution pitted colonists against the British Empire ... This assumption fueled intransigence among ministers ...

It literally inspired the American Revolution. Here’s what we don’t know ... Older political leaders hesitated, but young(ish) bucks like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were itching to haul ...

For most of American history, it was George Washington — the first president who swore to uphold the Constitution. As a hero of the Revolutionary War, Washington could have become king.

(WGXA) — The city of Sparta, in conjunction with the Sons and Daughters of the American ... of a Revolutionary War hero. Marquis de Lafayette was a French nobleman and military officer who served in ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George ... secured American independence. Though eager to retire at war's end, Washington ...

Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, a D.C. federal trial judge issued an order forcing the administration to release about $2 billion to American ... the fight over George Washington’s Neutrality ...