American Revolution

Long before fireworks lit the summer sky and families gathered for cookouts on the Fourth of July, one of America’s Founding Fathers imagined exactly how future generations would celebrate. That

Every Fourth of July, Americans gather for parades, backyard barbecues, concerts, and fireworks. We celebrate the birth of our nation with family and friends, often without giving much thought to

As America marches toward its 250th birthday, a revival of CBS’s Bicentennial Minute, the nightly Emmy-winning feature that aired from July 4, 1974, through December 31, 1976, would have been

A Revolutionary Return Just in time for Independence Day, one of America’s lesser-known Revolutionary heroines is coming home. In Carmel, New York, along the shores of Lake Gleneida, the bronze

History has a way of coming alive when it’s experienced, not just read—and that was exactly the case during a recent bipartisan visit to the Weitzman National Museum of American

A Midnight Ride You Didn’t Learn Enough About When Americans think of midnight rides during the Revolutionary War, one name tends to rise above the rest. But history, like many

Benjamin Franklin was one of America’s most remarkable Founders, a man whose restless curiosity and boundless energy left a mark on nearly every corner of early American life. Born in

Benjamin Franklin wasn’t just one of the Founding Fathers—he was a man of many firsts. A self-made polymath, he was a printer, writer, inventor, scientist, and diplomat. Franklin’s legacy stretches