Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

Janet Livingston married Richard Montgomery on July 24, 1773. She never remarried after his death during his campaign to Canada in winter 1775. She never let anyone forget “my general” or “my soldier, ...

The American Revolution was a turning point in modern history. It was one of the first successful movements to overthrow ...

Andrew Allen (1740-1825), the second son of Allentown founder William Allen, spent many years in England hoping to regain the ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...