This new dramatization of Franklin's most important diplomatic magnum opus is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff's 2005 book about his eight years in France.

Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

In “Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War,” John Ferling explores how the struggle between England and its North American colonies erupted into a ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an America on “the side of the tyrants” return the Statue of Liberty.

How the American Revolution became a global conflict. John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...