As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

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

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

When George Washington goes to heaven in the Gullah Traveling Theater’s telling of the American Revolution, Saint Peter stops ...

President Donald Trump, speaking about war as he attempts to decide whether or not to actively support Israel by bombing Iran, appeared to confuse America’s war for independence —the Revolutionary War ...

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

As we celebrate our nation’s independence, many may be surprised to learn that a Revolutionary War battle took place in ...

The Kings and Generals animated documentary series launches its new chapter on the American Civil War with an in-depth look ...

That American Revolution/Civil War link is particularly true in York County, which sits on the Mason-Dixon Line, close to military movements, supply lines and bloody battlefields.

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

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Even though the Civil War has been thoroughly studied for over 160 years, new discoveries are still being made. Last spring, a Civil War-era cannonball was found in the backyard of a Virginia home.