THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new six-part, 12-hour series that is currently streaming on PBS (directed by Ken Burns, Sarah ...

"Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner who ...

We Don’t Know Where We Are in the Political Cycle Happy 250th Birthday to the Few, the Proud, the Marines Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N. He teaches that grandeur and wonderment abound ...

According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God" : religion and the American Revolution -- "No king but King Jesus" : the Great Awakening and the first American Revolution ...