William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

War, even the American Revolution, is the health of the state because it is almost impossible to avoid fighting a war on ...

Known now as a day of patriotism and enjoying time off from work, the Fourth of July began the journey to becoming a ...

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When the American Revolution broke out, the American colonies were perhaps the least-taxed place on earth. How did this ...

The struggle for independence was as much a brutal civil war fought between Americans (“Patriots” versus “Loyalists”) as it was a conventional conflict between American and British armies ...

Introduction. The War of Independence plays such an important part in American popular ideology that references to it are especially prone to exaggeration and oversimplification.

Some Americans began celebrating the very same year, though the practice wouldn’t become widespread until the aftermath of the War of 1812. Congress finally passed a bill making Independence Day ...

The U.S. hid the Declaration of Independence during World War II. Although the Civil War was fought on American soil, it was during World War II that leaders of the United States were more fearful ...