Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its ...

The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting ...

Economic and social origins of the American Revolution / Louis M. Hacker -- A note on the economic interpretation / Charles M. Andrews -- Were the Navigation Acts oppressive? / Oliver M. Dickerson -- ...

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

The Georgetown County Library (GCL) is pleased to announce a series of upcoming public educational programs as part of “A Glorious Cause: South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Public History ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...