Teachers aim to foster “historical empathy” by focusing on stories of everyday people from the Revolutionary era. Students ...
Continuing a series we started last month, we’re revisiting the road to the American Revolution once a month, highlighting ...
Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story ...
Sure, you know Rhode Island is the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution. But did you know it had the first public ...
The first few weeks of our America 250 series has focused heavily on the early career of George Washington, the nation’s ...
“Finding this out, I was very proud,” said Jason Roomes, a descendant of three formerly enslaved men from Rhode Island, Cato, ...
This is the second in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our ...
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of 12 weekly stories focusing on America’s 250th birthday, as told through the lens of our communities and the role many of the places we call home played ...
In January 1777, Baltimore printer Mary Katharine Goddard published the first copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers’ names. By then, the document was already old news.
TV production schedules being what they are, it seems unlikely that “Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution” was intended as a direct response to the recent Ken Burns epic on the same ...
Embroidered panel, about two-thirds complete, is part of a project celebrating America’s 250th Stich by meticulous stitch, an embroidered panel representing Pennsylvania’s history as one of the ...