NPR's history podcast Throughline speaks with Ken Burns about his latest documentary, The American Revolution.

American history has traditionally been rooted in the ideal of 13 original colonies stretching from Georgia along the Eastern ...

Mari Tamez of the Bexar Heritage Center explains Bexar County's role in the American Revolution and previews events on Feb. 7 ...

It's the United States' semiquincentennial year. Or just call it USA 250. Throughout 2026, Iowans will be celebrating 250 years since the 13 colonies declared their independence in 1776. Here's a ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art took an emphatic tone in titling “Revolution!,” an exhibit commemorating a 250th anniversary that I probably need not spell out, and the result is emphatically good. The ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, on the Boston Massacre, and how it changed relations between the colonists and ...

The United States marked its 250th anniversary this year. Since its independence in 1776, the U.S. territory has expanded ...

A journey around Lower Manhattan highlights the roots of Revolution in the nation's first capital, now New York's largest city.

Racond, a historian of all things Washington, called the speech the soon-to-be president's "most important" action in ...

The rise of social media has disrupted both the media system and political parties. Financial markets gyrate, industries rise and fall at blistering rates, and new life-changing technologies appear ...

The Recorder is featuring a weekly series every Saturday over the next year on the founding of this nation leading up to the 250th anniversary on July 4, ...