The story of the 13 original colonies is a sweeping saga of ambition, resistance, and transformation that laid the bedrock for the modern United States. What began as a scattered collection of ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

When the Declaration was signed in 1776, it marked 13 distinct rebellions across separate colonies.

Personal freedom should always be coupled with the responsibility to fight for the freedoms of everyone else in our ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Freedom in Christ calls on us to freely exercise “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control,” for the good of God and others.

In 1775, life went on normally for most though a revolution was coming. Columnist joe Holley says Americans today have a duty ...

Often, small groups of European men wrested control of the colonies from Indigenous people through short fights or by scaring them with their ships, weapons, and trade goods. For example, Columbus ...

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

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President Trump started the countdown to next summer’s Semiquincentennial with an event at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Not ...