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

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

The American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

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

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.

“The Revolution to Come” is a trenchant intellectual history of the modern revolutionary project, seeking to explain both its tendency toward slaughter and its fatal attraction to despotism ...

While hunters and their rifles helped wage psychological warfare, the American victory can actually be attributed to ...

The famous quote ‘Give me liberty or give me death’ reportedly said by Patrick Henry turns 250 years old today (AP) ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

Does anyone doubt that the upcoming 250th anniversary of the American Revolution will produce a great deal of jingoistic nonsense parading as history?