The Trump administration plans to hold the oil tanker it seized in waters near Venezuela at an American port in Texas but ...

President Trump’s failure to ram through a Republican-friendly House map was a new sign that his iron grip on the party has ...

Indiana state lawmakers rejected the hotly debated question of whether they would pass new congressional maps ahead of the ...

The Battle of Great Bridge in modern-day Chesapeake was the first significant land battle of the American Revolution in Virginia. It was also significant because it featured multi-racial armies on ...

Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

The Red Lion Inn has been situated in Stockbridge, in one form or another, for more than 250 years, serving as a living piece ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath and the birth of a nation in this six-part docuseries, “The American ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

Rhode Island Colonists engaged in acts of resistance against the British a decade before the American Revolution officially began. Key events included firing on British ships, burning the HMS Gaspee, ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...