Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... the colony's attitude toward the despised Stamp Act. He explained that colonists could tolerate duties ...

Americans have never stopped debating the balance of powers, the rules of enfranchisement or how widely to apply the exhortation, “All men are created equal.” ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the ...

Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose books include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, said Lexington and Concord “galvanized opinion precisely as the ...

Stacy Schiff, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian whose books include biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, said Lexington and Concord “galvanized opinion precisely as the ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...