How should Americans remember their Revolution and the founding of the nation? Was it a complete, perfect, sacred event led by a great patriot who, as American children would learn, never told a lie?

this group of founders found agreement in their disagreements and laid the groundwork for a revolution Alexis Coe The artwork was a gift from the Marquis de Lafayette, who also included the ...

Lord Dunmore's Proclamation While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for ...

In 1770, Barnard Gratz of Philadelphia wrote to a friend complaining about a recent speech by King George III. Gratz, an ...

Members of the New England Patriots and New England Revolution celebrated Halloween with children battling cancer.

In 1796, the first president voluntarily left office, cementing the significance of a lofty ideal for his young country ...

That’s a legacy worth recalling this July 4. Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt, the chief justice of Common Pleas in Great Britain, took to the floor of the House of Lords ...

"Free speech defines us, and that is the awakening that we all have to try to work towards,” GWU Law School professor ...

Before those grim visions could come to pass, the green revolution transformed global agriculture, especially wheat and rice. Through selective breeding, Norman Borlaug, an American biologist ...

His anti-Jewish provocations are not a personal idiosyncrasy but the latest expression of an insurgent force on the American ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great ...

A special project, curated by Pharrell Williams, that examines America’s oppressive past—and the potential for an equitable future. Barbara Lee In Conversation With Jamaal Bowman: 'You Can't ...