PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A rare engraved print created by Paul Revere has been found in a 19th century book at Brown University. A university preservation...
Posted 10.12.2011
Following Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate, Texas Governor Rick Perry stumbled in making remarks on the Revolutionary War, Carrie Dann a...
Zoe P. Strassfield | Posted 12.11.2011
Ever since we'd first learned about the Revolutionary War in fourth grade, I'd wanted to visit the sites where the events had occurred. So I showed up early, camera-in-hand, to visit the Freedom Trail, a very high priority on my "Must-See" list.
Kevin Bunkley | Posted 11.02.2011
We're heading toward an environment where myth is repackaged as fact.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 10.24.2011
The weeds, the vines, they are the only things alive in this half-acre tombstone. James Sheehan has been trying to kill them off for decades, but they keep coming back.
John W. Whitehead | Posted 09.26.2011
Too often, we elevate the events of the American Revolution to near-mythic status and forget that the real revolutionaries were people just like you and me.
Posted 09.03.2011
Yes, we know the 4th of July is more about fireworks and picnics than the Revolutionary War, but we are, after all, celebrating American Independence....
Anil Mundra | Posted 09.01.2011
America has always been religious -- and also religiously diverse. The historical narrative suggests that it's this special combination to which the United States owes its existence.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011
What would Michele Bachmann's first major 2012 campaign speech look like once she officially announced her candidacy?
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
In between the Declaration of Independence and George Washington's inauguration, there were 16 (or perhaps 13, or maybe just eight) men who were called "president".
Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011
I still have a strange sense of hope for change, but it is not coming from Barack Obama. Rather it is coming from public rumblings that I'm beginning ...
Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011
Julian Assange's great-great-great-great-grandmother reportedly released some explosive documents during the Revolutionary War that eerily remind us o...
Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011
There's more religion than politics in the 2010 Tea Party, Jill Lepore is saying. There's less of 1776 about it than of 1976 -- that dyspeptic post-Vietnam, post-Watergate bicentennial moment.
Posted 05.25.2011
We may be history nerds, but we love walking around historic battlefields of wars past. There is something so moving and so compelling about walking...
Steve Poses | Posted 05.25.2011
The Headhouse Farmers' Market grows out of long market tradition. And for pure physical per-square-foot concentration of food shopping ecstasy, it is unrivaled.
Posted 05.25.2011
Want to find out what Kakutani had to say about Gary Shteyngart's "Super Sad True Love Story"? How about the LA Times's take on Rick Moody's latest? C...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
The Revolutionary War lasted a lot longer than most of us realize. Begun in 1775, the war didn't end for six long years, and wasn't fully resolved for another two. The Battle of the Chesapeake, in particular, deserves to be remembered.
Cristen Conger | Posted 11.17.2011
With the Fourth of July upon us, Americans thankfully have something do with all of those leftover flags we bought for the World Cup and wept into las...
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
We forget that while the American Revolution was basically about the rights, it was really about the duty of government to secure these rights.
Dominika Jaworski | Posted 05.25.2011
Maintaining strong diplomatic relations and friendship in a time of profound national grief with Poland can be accomplished easily: President Obama should attend President Kaczynski's funeral.
Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011
Because he "could not tell a lie," a gay General Washington would have been obliged to turn himself in. Under current policy, Congress would have sent him packing back to Mt. Vernon.
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.25.2011
Why would John Adams defend British soldiers who killed American men in the Boston Massacre? It's a question that has taken on new poignancy with the recent controversy over the attacks by Elizabeth Cheney on the attorneys who defended some of the Guantanamo detainees.
Posted 05.25.2011
Pulitzer Prize winning author Jack Rakove was on 'The Daily Show' last night to talk about his new book, "Revolutionaries," and the remarkable story o...
Michael Kranish | Posted 05.25.2011
Five years after writing the Declaration of Independence that helped set the revolutionary war in motion, Jefferson was forced to flee Richmond when it was occupied by Arnold and his men.
cracked.com | Posted 05.25.2011
It's easy to say the modern teabaggers are assholes. The modern teabaggers are assholes. See? We didn't even break a sweat. But as it turns out, th...
AP | Posted 04.12.2012