Philadelphia is the largest city in Pennsylvania. It has deep roots in US history. It’s where the most prominent early ...

I find myself thinking these days about the American revolutionaries, especially Thomas Paine. Paine immigrated from England ...

Also invoking King’s legacy was David Houle of Highland Park. Raised on the South Side of Chicago and now in his 70s, his ...

American Revolution Experience is part of a multiyear, nationwide tour that focuses on a variety of firsthand perspectives.

The owners and operators of Founding Father Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate want next year's Fourth of July, the 250th, more powerful than a party.

As we commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, we should honor and remember John Adams and ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

On April 12, 1861, the Civil War erupted with the firing on Fort Sumter by the Confederacy. Confederate Vice President ...

John Wyatt talked his way out of a prisoner of war camp with a barrel of rum. He then used forged documents to infiltrate ...

Andrew Lawler contends that Thomas Jefferson wanted to destroy urban, multiracial, capitalist Norfolk partly because it ...

As the 250th anniversary of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence draws near, on July 4,2026, many will call to mind the famous names of some of the great signers of our Declaration of ...