A powerful new documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt is set to premiere ...

George Washington in New York, 1783, by C. Inger. (Library of Congress / Getty) To the surprise and consternation of scholars, history has recently emerged as a battlefield in the ongoing culture wars ...

possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials. It was not a conscious conspiracy, but an accumulation of tactical responses. After 1763, with England ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

French soldiers, along with their Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potowatomi allies, fended off Braddock and Washington’s assault near what is today Pittsburgh, killing a third of their 1,500 troops, along with ...

Was the founding father of the American Navy a pirate? How does one of the most notorious pirates in British history become an iconic hero of the American Revolution? Long before he went toe-to-toe ...

If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up ...