On July 17, the Liberty brought two Connecticut-based ships into Newport Harbor, accusing their captains of customs violations. The captain of one of the Connecticut ships, Joseph Packwood, went ...

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Let’s forget about the pilgrims for a second to celebrate the woman who made Abraham Lincoln recognize the holiday.

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“I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown Jeremy Helligar is Deputy Editorial Director at PEOPLE and an author (Is It True What ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

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The series is narrated by Peter Coyote and features the voices of Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and others The American Revolution does a deep dive into the lives of Black Americans during the war and how ...

In defense of President Donald Trump, most of us know scant details about the life of George Washington. Yet that didn’t stop ...