"Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is." So says Joyce Appleby, professor emerita at UCLA and author of the new book, The...
The people of Massachusetts had more power over their own government than anyone else in the British empire. These independent minded colonists increa...
"Listen my children and you shall hear." With those lines, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began his epic poem about Paul Revere's fide April 18, 1775. Whe...
We often assume that the American Revolution ended in October 1781, after Lord Cornwallis surrendered his British army at Yorktown. In fact, the war e...
Walter Edgar, Professor Emeritus of History, University of South Carolina, shares the role South Carolina and the South played in the American Revolut...
The soldiers of the Continental Army suffered extreme hardships. They were usually under-supplied while they experienced the terror of combat, fightin...
The people of Massachusetts had more power over their own government than anyone else in the British empire. These independent minded colonists increa...