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 ...

The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

July 4 marks the day the U.S. adopted the Declaration of Independence in 1776, breaking away from British rule and laying the ...

The American Revolution was a turning point in modern history. It was one of the first successful movements to overthrow ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...

American opponents of the Stamp Act would refuse to purchase British goods in order to put commercial pressure on Parliament to repeal the act. The tactic worked. In March 1766, Parliament ...

Vermont patriots marched in 1775 against the British Army under a flag depicting a pine tree — a symbol of British tyranny. Because pine was an excellent material for building ships, Parliament ...

Stanley Weintraub discusses Iron Tears, his recently published history of the American Revolution from the British perspective. King George III and Britons in the 1770s felt the colonists were ...

Roberts finds him not guilty of all but two: the 17th, which concerns taxation, and the 22nd, regarding the British Parliament’s legislative powers in the colonies. Even here, there’s room for ...

American Revolution Reinvents Guerrilla ... you tell us that the British in the Revolutionary War realized ... It now had to respect the power of public opinion as expressed in parliament.