"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history ...

George Mason University Political Scientist Jack Goldstone joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Simon Schama is best known to American audiences as the snarky British host of the BBC's epic 15-part series A History of Britain. But the expatriate professor of art history at Columbia University is ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off the American Revolutionary War, a group known as the Daughters of Liberty formed to protest the Stamp Act, per University ...

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 ...

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

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...

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

The French Revolution sent shock-waves through Britain. While some watched transfixed, others were horrified. Simon Schama explores why the British proved immune to the siren call of liberty, equality ...

The historian’s splendid account sets out the ideas, inventions and relentless exploitation that drove the nation’s growth ...