The Exodus story was a model of providential liberation and deliverance for Americans rebelling against Britain’s pharaonic ...

Ken Burns, in his documentary on the American Revolution, said one thing about Joseph Warren: he was killed at Bunker Hill.

The revolutionary ideals of liberty spread across the colonies while many suffer from enslavement. Committees of Correspondence form in hundreds of Massachusetts towns linking advocates of resistance ...

The Pine Tree flag, which appeared in many places during the American War for Independence, symbolizes the desire for self-rule and determination, much like the “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flag. It ...

Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

National Parks have a duty to share the full, messy, complicated story of the founding of the country. As the nation turns ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

A historic Connecticut property recently was featured in a PBS documentary about the American Revolution. East Lyme's Samuel ...

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...