I have a love-hate relationship with Mel Gibson’s film, “The Patriot.” On the one hand, it’s a highly entertaining movie about a topic virtually untouched by Hollywood. On the other, the movie is so ...

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 ...

On April 19, 1775, British redcoats clashed with colonial militias and minutemen in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, the first military conflict of the American Revolution. Two days ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...