Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, ...

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and shifting, trying to decide what it will be. Prolific documentarian Ken ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. The American Revolutionary War was a struggle for ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

“No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.” — Howard Zinn The American ...

Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth. Painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1857. Monmouth County Historical Association The war began on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord ...

Newsreels told the story of World War II, and the early still photography of Matthew Brady chronicled the horrors of the Civil War. But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago this ...

Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in research and storytelling to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

The DAR awards more than 30 scholarships annually, totaling close to $250,000, to students across the country, but the ...