Features Washington's desperate pleas for supplies, brutal accounts of frontier warfare between Patriots and Loyalists, Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown witnessed by a female camp follower, ...

Until I started watching the documentary “The American Revolution” by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, I hadn’t contemplated how we really haven’t changed all that ...

The first formal battle for American independence involving North Carolinians occurred 250 years ago in South Carolina. The ...

The 250th anniversary of an early Revolutionary battle brings crowds to the Ninety Six National Historic Site.

CONCORD, N.H. — In the American Revolution, Granite Staters had to pick a side. Their decisions led to vastly divergent fates ...

In honor of America's 250th birthday, the Harlan Institute will host a very special Virtual Supreme Court Competition for the October 2025 Term. We will re-enact the debates over independence in the ...

At the end of the Revolutionary War, those who remained loyal to the British Crown departed America either to return to Britain or to settle in other colonial territories. Many relocated to Canada, ...

Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” series on PBS was lengthy but profoundly significant. It aired over six consecutive nights, ...

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