Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

The American Revolution (1775–1783) was a historic struggle that led to the birth of the United States of America. It began ...

A tradition dating back to the colonial period was revived in Steubenville on Saturday with the planting and dedication of a Liberty Tree by the Daughters of th ...

The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.

That same philosophy drives his newest project, The American Revolution, a sweeping six-part, 12-hour documentary that ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van ...

The Battle of Hampton was small as battles go, but it involved big issues, such as the status of enslaved workers in Virginia.