Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off the American Revolutionary War, a group known as the Daughters of Liberty formed to protest the Stamp Act, per University ...

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 ...

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

Fun fact: Only four U.S. presidents do not have Patriotic ancestors. They are Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump because their ancestors were in Europe or Germany during ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed ...

Did you know Charleston, SC, was a primary theater of the Revolutionary War? 🇺🇸 From the "pincushion" Palmetto walls of ...

Wayne Price reviews Loren Goldner's "Revolution, Defeat, and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia" (2017). Originally published on anarkismo.net and linked from issue 18 of ...

When discussing his work and its long conversation with the American story, Ken Burns often shares a version of a quote long attributed to Mark Twain. “History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim ...