The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

The American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

Forgive me, I’m on a movie kick. I wrote about the 50th anniversary of Jaws last week. Besides, for this holiday column, I ...

Those who attended the 300th birthday party for the comte de Rochambeau celebrated his partnership with Washington, and the civil way they made decisions.

From agriculture's dawn to the digital age, revolutions have consistently reshaped power dynamics. Ownership of land, ...

Newside Cemetery in Harrisburg’s eastern suburbs points to 18th-century settlers and a theological dispute that gave the ...

Buy Photo This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, or, more accurately, Breed's Hill, ...

Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

I don’t celebrate the Fourth of July. Celebrating the Revolution is like celebrating the First World War — needless butchery.

Kicking off a three-week focus on the American Revolution with the film “Liberty! The American Revolution,” the Adirondack ...

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...