As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

Explore the roots of the American Revolution in this animated documentary. From the end of the French and Indian War to the Boston Massacre, we examine the growing tensions between Britain and the ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

War, even the American Revolution, is the health of the state because it is almost impossible to avoid fighting a war on ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

This is the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution. The celebrations have begun, notably the Boston Tea ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for ...