For the 250th anniversary, the Times Magazine asked leading historians to profile founding-era Americans whose roles in the ...
Would we be the nation we are today without alcohol? Probably not. In a new book, a historian argues drinking was crucial to ...
We are the residuum of two irreconcilable cultures, red and blue from the get-go, issuing from the Mayflower and a slave ship ...
A John Carter Brown Library exhibition explores events and milestones of 1776, from the signing of the Declaration of ...
The British punished rebellious New Englanders by depriving them of their livelihood. This led unemployed mariners to enlist ...
What would a person in Revolutionary America sound like? Early letters, documents, and diaries help us listen in.
Rick Atkinson has won Pulitzer Prizes both for his reporting and for his work as a historian. He’s written about five wars, ...
As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Americans are reflecting on the people, ...
The historian-podcasters Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explain why losing the thirteen colonies “annoyed” the British, ...
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I study the Declaration of Independence, and here’s why the colonists’ grievances are surprisingly relevant, 250 years later
The Declaration of Independence, with its block of cursive letters scrawled onto parchment, looks like a relic from the ...
Washington dictated and signed the letter in October 1781 to formally accept the British surrender at Yorktown, writing of ...
Spain joins the war, but not as an ally of American independence – as an enemy of Britain. In June 1779, Spain joins France in the war against England. As empire with colonies in America, Spain does ...
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