When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Almost every trapping of Independence Day is due to Mother England in some way or another. In fact, it is fair to ask why we ...

As SC celebrates Carolina Day, the anniversary of Battle of Sullivan's Island, efforts are underway to raise awareness of ...

When Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, we imagine fireworks, flags and a dramatic reading of the Declaration of ...

A new American Revolution is going on in the Supreme Court. In recent years, it has issued four major decisions curtailing ...

Ever written your congressman? I have. I always get a prompt and cordial, if bland, reply. Back in 1988, I actually spent a few weeks as a Capitol Hill intern reading and drafting responses to ...

The flying of the flag "should be shocking to anyone who doesn't wish to live in a theocracy,” one expert said.

Freedom is once again the central theme of Skinner’s new book, Liberty as Independence.A work of history that seeks to pinpoint exactly how long the older republican notion of liberty prevailed before ...

By all accounts John Paul Jones was a true believer in the American Revolution. Throughout his life he declared that he had drawn his sword from pure love of liberty, not as an American, but as a ...

When Newton published his revolutionary new theories of gravity and motion way back in 1687, I’m sure he didn’t How Isaac Newton’s science inspired the American Revolution Skip to main ...

The American Freedom Train, perhaps more than anything else, tied the national and local bicentennial celebrations together. John Warner, who headed up the congressionally created American ...

But the hard truths of the American Revolution are being obscured by Leviathan-loving pundits. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.—President John F. Kennedy’s court historian and a revered liberal ...