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

Newside Cemetery in Harrisburg’s eastern suburbs points to 18th-century settlers and a theological dispute that gave the ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

As Arlington commemorates the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, Kurt Russell and his son are ...

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

Renowned American actor Kurt Russell spent part of his July 4th visiting the Arlington house where his eighth ...

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

The home, which was built by Jason Russell, was the site of the bloodiest battle of the first day of the American Revolution ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians "250 years later, is the Spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

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