The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. "In the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he ...

The Reading & Northern Railroad (RBMN) on Nov. 11 unveiled a locomotive dressed in a patriotic scheme celebrating the ...

The British army and navy, in a stunning display of global force projection and military logistics, invaded Brooklyn by sea and launched the defeat of George Washington's army in New York City on this ...

Sit down, John... because it's someone else's turn to speak. That's the core notion at the heart of a new revival of 1776, coming to Broadway this fall courtesy of the Roundabout Theatre Company and A ...

Bruce Banner asks would it have mattered if Britain had won the American Revolution? And Rich Johnston gets a history ...

(l to r) Elizabeth A. Davis, Patrena Murray, Crystal Lucas-Perry in Roundabout Theatre Company’s ‘1776.’ Photo by Joan Marcus. It’s spring 1776, and the Second Continental Congress is gathered in ...

Having just come through Super Tuesday primary election week and getting just a taste of the political rhetoric that lies ahead between now and November, what a pleasure it is to sit back and take in ...