A historic day in Tulare County as the Daughters of the American Revolution hold a special marker dedication for the widow of ...

In response to surcharges on imports such as glass, paint, and tea, the colonists refused to buy these products.

Below, a look at how five of the nation’s Founders made their livings, how they invested in the revolutionary cause—and what they gained and lost. Franklin was on a diplomatic mission in France in ...

Benjamin Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, eventually threw his notes and documents for a planned memoir of the Revolution into the fire. "America's revolutionary ...

DAR's National Board voted to disband the Martha Laird Chapter in Texas, which led efforts to block transgender women from joining the organization.

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The historical documentary master is at the top of his game in this thrillingly timely history lesson about democracy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art The ...

Also published in The Library of Economics and Liberty Wed. July 4, 2018. Editor's Noted: This article first appeared on Independent.org in 2018 and is reprinted with permission from The Library of ...

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Throughout US history, social movements—from reformist to radical—have returned to the language and ideals of 1776. Freedom struggle: Frederick Douglass petitions Abraham Lincoln to allow Black ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...