There are two distinctly American traits that predated and supercharged the Revolution, raging on for the 250 years since: We ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years of its Independence, it is proper to examine the career of James Madison, the fourth president of the Republic. More than any other, he shaped the ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: These are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810). As the United States' first ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...

Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

This video follows the bitter political chaos that erupted after George Washington left office. John Adams and Thomas ...

Without course correction, experts warn, it cannot be overstated how much of what the country has achieved could be lost.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Crikey examines a single life which illuminates the myriad contradictions woven ...

For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

My dad was an Irish immigrant and so were my mom’s parents. America was fair to them, and they wanted to be fair to everyone ...

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

Now, as America prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence, we are confronted with a bitter irony: the republic born in rebellion against empire has become an empire in everything but name. Worse ...