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

Myths about the Civil War have helped to construct and support this complacency, as earlier myths about the American Revolution also obscure the nation’s bloody, coercive, and undemocratic founding.

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

The Civil War was fought to free the slaves, but it left over 600,000 Americans dead. Can a just war still be a tragedy? Ta-Nehisi Coates responds to Matt Yglesias on the question of tragedy and ...

Bancroft and Pulitzer Prize winning historian Gordon Wood delivered a talk titled "The Revolutionary Roots of the Civil War." Professor Wood discussed the Founders views on slavery and argued that ...

Arguments are continually offered about the causes of the Civil War, more accurately called the War for Southern Independence, for it was not truly a civil war, but a revolution ...

Overview: Civil War and Revolution, 1603 - 1714. The Stuart dynasty spanned one of the most tumultuous periods in British history - years of civil war, assassination attempts, usurpations ...

The country’s largest Civil War battlefield protection group, the Civil War Trust, will announce Tuesday that it is enlarging its mission to also preserve the battlefields of the Revolutionary ...

H. W. Brands, best-selling author of biographies of American heroes and villains, has earned a much-deserved reputation as a writer of narrative history. In “Our First Civil War: Patriots and ...

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.