The Continental Congress’s success in negotiating a military alliance with France was pivotal to the colonies’ successful ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to ...

The American Revolution reached a new phase when the war came to the sea. By authorizing privateers and embracing maritime ...

The Adirondacks played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. Explore our America250 coverage of the shipwrecks, forts, ...

As America marks 250 years of independence, Commodore John Barry's journey from Wexford to Revolutionary War legend reveals ...

Historians and observers accused the Trump administration of trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign ...

Today marks the 178th anniversary of our Nation’s triumph in the Mexican-American War—a legendary victory that secured the American Southwest, reasserted ...

The organisation faces a potential rival in Donald Trump’s fledgling ‘Board of Peace’. But as a forum for US power, it would ...

The strategic imperative for Democrats now is building a large and lasting majority that can defeat MAGA populism decisively.

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to ...

In the United States, the American Revolution is often taught as a defining national triumph, but in Britain it occupies a ...

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, ...