The Boston City Council sought to commemorate July 4th by comparing President Trump’s “unconstitutional” actions to the ...

The United States has recently witnessed challenges to the right to due process and a fair trial, including a recent explicit ...

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, ...

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner "No Kings." ...

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.

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

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

With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

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

The American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

This is not so historically perverse as it seems. The American revolution, after all, was primarily a rebellion against the British parliament rather than the British king.