The American Revolution was a world-changing event. ... were “a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression,” Lincoln explained.

Thomas Jefferson listened in anguish as the other members of the Continental Congress edited his draft of the Declaration of ...

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 ...

In 1852, nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the ...

Today marks the 249th anniversary of our nation’s courageous separation from Great Britain. But did you know they have the ...

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.

There is an American practice of putting self over society, privilege over people, power over peace. So long as we, the individuals, are gaining money and privilege, never matter the pain of others.

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago this month, it can be harder to appreciate the life-and-death stakes in the colonists' fight for freedom.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year.

This column was originally published by TheStatehouseFile.com By John Krull TheStatehouseFile.com June 30, 2025 Thomas ...