Most people know that the July 4th holiday celebrates the day the United States of America gained its Independence (the […] ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but ...

Happy Independence Day. Go insult a politician to celebrate in traditional style. The post Celebrate Independence Day by ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...