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 ...

The United States' celebration of Independence Day reminds us Founding Fathers faced much greater challenges than we do today ...

The American vision has a high degree of tolerance for inequality and a robust commitment to individual liberty, because in the American revolutionary tradition, the pursuit of happiness is an ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

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

As recent escalations in Iran-US hostilities push the Middle East to the brink, this series revisits the turbulent Iran-US ...

Here are some things you may not know about the U.S. Army, which will be honored Saturday in Washington, D.C. with a military ...

The White House wasn’t always white, and it definitely wasn’t always American in design. Irish architects left their mark on ...

“What better way to celebrate the American spirit in advance of Independence Day than seeing history come alive as the Rough Riders and Theodore Roosevelt visit the place he called home, the ...