There’s never been another country like America. That’s not mere patriotic hyperbole for our 250th anniversary. It’s historical fact. But many of us have never really understood it. Or maybe we forgot ...

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge. By Jennifer Schuessler The Declaration ...

The Wilmington Campaign of 1781 was the last major Revolutionary War campaign in North Carolina. British forces under Major James Henry Craig occupied Wilmington on Jan. 29, 1781. The campaign ...

Operation Homefront distributed back-to-school supplies to 200 military children this month, providing backpacks and school ...

Graham Platner’s bid for the Senate inspired progressive Democrats. But the campaign, which he suspended Wednesday, was messy, disorganized and ultimately doomed by a steady drip of scandal. Graham ...

Americans tend to see the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War as milestones in world history that inaugurated the era of modern democracy. But the British, unsurprisingly, see these ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When General George Washington successfully surprised the Hessians in ...

As I think back to the year 1776, I can’t help but wonder what the Founding Fathers would think of our nation today. They fought to create a country that, in so many ways, should never have been ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down longtime campaign finance rules challenged by Vice President JD Vance that place limits on how much a national political party committee can spend ...

The American Revolution will be a war that will pit brother against brother – and birth a nation. The American Revolution will become not just a local war for independence, but a war between great ...

Even though it's been nearly 250 years since the Continental Congress declared independence from Britain, the study of the American Revolution is far from over. For decades, archaeologists have dug at ...

Our Revolution, a political organization founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after his unsuccessful presidential run, is putting its support behind former Maine state lawmaker Troy Jackson to ...