“No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.” — Howard Zinn The American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution ...

More than 250 years ago, the United States began a difficult journey toward independence, a goal that would forever change the course of world history. The adoption of the Declaration of Independence ...

The PBS docuseries, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, argues America’s birth was less a unified fight for independence than a ...

United States’ Declaration of Independence, often considered to be the birth of America. While July 4 has been considered America’s birthday ...

Over the years, I have written various posts and articles on the American Revolution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Some have obvious continuing relevance to such issues as ...

"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished." Cultural historian and filmmaker Ken Burns has delighted audiences with in-depth documentaries about American life.

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In April 1689, decades before the American Revolution, Boston erupted in a revolt against the Dominion of New England and Governor Edmund Andros. At 5 a.m. on April 18, 12 militia companies assembled ...

"These are the times that try men’s souls," Thomas Paine wrote near the end of the turbulent, fear-filled year of 1776. It was the soul of a woman, however, that defiantly withstood the weight of the ...