Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

In a full-battalion-to-remind-you-of-my-love kind of missive, George Washington informed the Canadians that Benedict Arnold ...

Freedom was very important to Patrick Henry, who lived in a time with a lot of self-governance and liked it. Unfortunately, ...

Edits to webpages appear to be part of the administration's effort to whitewash certain portions of American history related ...

The birth of our country may feel like a familiar story. But in making a documentary about it, we found plenty of revelations ...

Jane Kamensky is the president and CEO of Monticello and the author of “A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton ...

While writing my column this week, I was reminded of Benjamin Franklin’s quip about the outcome ... as the United States’ third secretary of war. It was recorded in “The Records of the ...

A routine discussion among top US officials on a messaging app which also had the editor-in-chief of a leading American ...

David Schmidt is a producer and co-director with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein of “The American Revolution,” which is scheduled to air on PBS in November. A special preview is planned in Colonial ...