South Carolina originally sent five delegates to the Second Continental Congress but only one, Edward Rutledge, remained to ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.” ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids ...

The contours of this legacy are still contested, as they and so much else were at the time of their drafting. Yet, when Americans allow their disagreements to get too heated — or, worse, when they are ...

From the beginning of the American experiment, one of its animating principles has been limited government overseen by ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...