This commentary is authored by John A. Tures, a professor of political science at LaGrange College. After celebrating the 4th of July last weekend, it’s worth noting that there’s another historical ...

I just finished Ken Burns' documentary series, "The American Revolution," and I have to agree with his assessment that our ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Andrew Lawler, author of "A Perfect Frenzy," spoke about the bad guys and good guys during the American Revolution. His remarks came during an event ...

As Ken Burns’ The American Revolution examines how the founding of America turned the world upside down, this vignette from WCMU explores the enslavement of Black and Indigenous people in what is now ...

I am working on a research project for the Spartanburg County Historical Association. The directors at Walnut Grove Plantation in Moore, S.C., have never researched the descendants of the slaves who ...

A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like ...

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.

In his engrossing new history, Simon Schama asks some startling questions: Which side should slaves have rooted for in the American Revolution -- the colonists, who spoke of liberty, or the British, ...

Rebellious Africans: How Caribbean slavery came to the mainland -- Free trade in Africans? Did the Glorious Revolution unleash the slave trade? -- Revolt! Africans conspire with the French and Spanish ...

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

Somerset's journey sparks the American Revolution -- The tinderbox -- Virginia responds to the Somerset Decision -- The Virginia Resolution unites the Colonies and leads to the First Continental ...

Ken Burn's "American Revolution" documentary shows that war had profound implications for humanity, notion of equality of all ...