In doing so, Paine democratized political thought. He asserted that ordinary people were capable of understanding, judging, ...

Guest columnist Anna Barker shares her latest historical piece.

Follow the American Revolution through a modern lens as Google Earth brings historic battlefields, colonial cities, and key ...

From the American Freedom Train and a Bicentennial Wagon Train to stars and stripes and everything red, white and blue.

Paine’s timing for “Common Sense,” the first widely-read pamphlet proposing independence rather than pleading for rights and reconciliation, was perfect. Only a year earlier, his words would have not ...

Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Through ...

Events are planned nationwide for America 250, which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.

The Adams Presidential Center in Quincy is hosting a free event about the PBS documentary "The American Revolution." Award-winning historians Gordon Wood and Friederike Baer, who were featured in the ...

“The American Revolution,” a documentary by Ken Burns, has been watched by many people. In a recent interview about the documentary, Mr. Burns stated that the American Revolution was the most ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...