Christian McBurney talked about his book about how British and American forces attempted to abduct military officers during the Revolutionary War, including George Washington and Benedict Arnold.

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

Joseph Warren was a key leader of the American Revolution, mobilizing troops and managing a circle of spies. But he's mainly ...

The tide of the war rose in Washington’s favor as his troops became more ex­perienced and proficient in just this type of ...

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

The American semiquincentennial begins now. ... that high-minded leaders worthy of esteem can rise to the occasion with pluck, ... Much about the American Revolution has been forgotten or distorted.

Bruce Levine described the Civil War as the second American Revolution and Abraham Lincoln as a Revolutionary leader, in this talk with students at Western Illinois University. Following his ...

Rushmore was created by Gutzon Borglum, a confidant of leaders of the revitalized 20th-century Ku Klux Klan. ... The American Revolution, ...