In 1852, nearly a century after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What to the ...

December 1776 - The Storm Before Trenton Washington’s surprise attack in Trenton is as legendary as it was nearly suicidal.

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns explains the importance of the American Revolution, telling "CBS Evening News" co-anchor and CBS News ...

The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.

Kings and Generals presents the full animated story of how the United States became independent through the American ...