Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the height of Henry's influence. But the politician also served in key ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Thomas Paine’s immortal words, from The American Crisis pamphlets beginning ... As our own Rich Lowry points out: The Revolution didn’t devour its own. Its leaders died in their beds.

And that fact is likely to be fully exposed in the flood of books, op-eds, podcasts and a Ken Burns six-part documentary on the American Revolution, due out in November (full disclosure: I’m quoted in ...

I wonder how many people reading these words know the significance of ... It’s the 250th anniversary of the beginnings of the US American Revolution. On that day in 1775, in Concord and ...

Indeed, the American Revolution was a Lockean Revolution ... In his address to Parliament, Camden recognized Locke’s achievement with words that surely incensed his colleagues.

Words that shouldn't be? It all depends on your perspective. Read essays and opinions on how Americans use English. Friction over the American propensity to coin words and phrases dates back to ...

Gordon S. Wood, a professor of history emeritus at Brown University, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.” John Adams of Massachusetts and ...

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which ... just weeks before the American Revolution.

Museum curator Andrew Talkov on new American Revolution exhibit Talkov highlighted ... What's interesting about that expression is that those words were written by Thomas Jefferson in 1775 as ...