American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

The historian Clinton Rossiter wrote a book in the 1960s titled Conservatism in America but subtitled The Thankless Persuasion. The United States is a revolutionary society, he wrote, constantly ...

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Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

The star-spangled makeover of the Princeton Battlefield aims to turn the site into an outdoor classroom and living memorial.