T he 2020s have so far been an incredibly hostile era to protest in the United States. The latter stages of the first Trump ...

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

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

The Revolution was one of the most important historical events of the past 2,000 years. It established the world’s most ...

A decade before America’s original No Kings movement, Ben Franklin stood in London before the House of Commons and — while attempting to explain in some small way the American mind — warned against ...

Protesting the deportations, cost-cutting, program eliminating and other actions of President Donald Trump’s administration, the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution was not ...

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians: "250 years later, is the spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

Black Americans’, our’ relationship to this annual holiday has always been fraught. In 1852, nearly a century after the ...

American Revolution 250th celebrations begin in Lexington, Concord (Photos) Some protest President Trump ...

Perhaps we should understand the Revolution nearly 250 years ago not as the birth of an American protest tradition, but as the origin of its potential demise.