The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different ...

Maybe Harrisburg’s connections to the Revolutionary War aren’t obvious. No battles raged here. No signers of the Declaration ...

America’s xenophobia and racism are again manifesting. On Dec. 2, the current president of the United States engaged in a racist tirade during a cabinet meeting, denigrating Somali immigrants as ...

A Philadelphia historian says Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published 250 years ago, "changed the course of world history." ...

The monarch allegedly said the U.K. would follow the U.S. in its "muscular return to colonialism” amid Venezuela and ...

Although our nation will celebrate its birth in July of this year, its story of independence begins several years prior. Throughout the times beginning in about 1773 the flames for freedom were being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When negotiating peace after the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin wanted Britain to give Canada to the newly formed United ...

Alastair Crooke, a former British ambassador, stated in a recent interview in reference to European and American political ...

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

With authoritarianism on the rise, the pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolution remains relevant ...

The U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall Collection contains 100 sculptures: two luminaries from each state. They include many familiar figures, such as Helen Keller, Johnny Cash, Ronald Reagan and Amelia ...