PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

One of the primary objectives of 'The American Revolution' is to challenge the simplified mythologies surrounding this pivotal moment in history. Burns emphasizes the need to move beyond tales like ...

3. Unlike the Russian, French, or English Revolutions, the Revolutionary War never underwent an extremely violent phase, glutted with beheadings and torture. What made the American Revolution ...

She and her volunteers like Cecily Kelly can help trace your lineage back to the American Colonial times. If you do have such ...

Passed by the British Parliament in March 1765, the Stamp Act aimed to raise revenue directly from the American colonies. It required colonists to pay a tax on virtually all printed materials. This ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Wisconsin Magazine of History, the full-color quarterly magazine of the Wisconsin Historical Society, informs and delights ...

possibility of directing much of the rebellious energy against England and her local officials. It was not a conscious conspiracy, but an accumulation of tactical responses. After 1763, with England ...

Shortly after the Revolutionary War, a British father of 15 sat down to think about the world “turned upside down.” He had never seen the American continent, and rarely set foot outside London. But ...