The American Revolution was driven in part by the colonists' desire to break free from British mercantilist policies and secure their right to free trade. Amid the ongoing revival of trade ...

Today, July 4, marks the 249 th birthday of the United States of America. That puts America 365 days from the big 250, a pretty good run for something as temporary-sounding as the “American Experiment ...

Historians deal in secular truths. Slavery is an appropriate explanation for the Civil War; God’s will is not. Still, some occurrences are so improbable they can make it hard to believe that we’re ...

Also published in The Library of Economics and Liberty Wed. July 4, 2018. Editor's Noted: This article first appeared on Independent.org in 2018 and is reprinted with permission from The Library of ...

In 1761, a lawyer named James Otis strode into a Massachusetts courtroom and laid out a fiery case in defense of his clients, a group of Boston merchants. His speech — witnessed by an admiring John ...

TV production schedules being what they are, it seems unlikely that “Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution” was intended as a direct response to the recent Ken Burns epic on the same ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What really happened at the end of the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The end of the final British military presence in Charleston came during the American Revolution as British soldiers left the Holy City on Dec. 14, 1782. In February of 1780, ...

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