Ilya Somin defends the American Revolution
1. Far from retarding the abolition of slavery, the Revolution actually accelerated it. Its triumph gave a big boost to Enlightenment liberalism, which inspired the First Emancipat...
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1. Far from retarding the abolition of slavery, the Revolution actually accelerated it. Its triumph gave a big boost to Enlightenment liberalism, which inspired the First Emancipat...
As John Adams said, the war was both an effect and a consequence of a revolution in the minds of the people.
by Harold Hutchison at CDN - The United States declared its independence from Great Britain 250 years ago, but the flashpoint of the Revolutionary War which led to the Declaration...
The following is a lightly edited transcript of a speech delivered on May 28, 2026, at the “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Reenactment at The Heritage Foundation. Britain’s seve...
Throughout US history, social movements-from reformist to radical-have returned to the language and ideals of 1776.
The core of this argument is that the American Founding set the United States on a unique path that made it one of the richest and freest places in the world. Yet, this causal conn...
Through maps, petitions and treaties, the National Archives reveals the human cost of revolution, from displaced loyalists to enslaved people caught between two competing armies.Re...
Washington’s troops won the ground war, but today's left and right are waging war on the ideals of the Revolution.
Lexington and Concord, Boston and Philadelphia, the Delaware River and Valley Forge. When we reflect on the birth of the nation, these are the places that naturally come to mind. B...
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features Christopher Flannery’s take on the American Revolution’s significance. How should we think about the American Revolution o...
For the 250th, nine colleges established before the American Revolution reflect on a tumultuous time for their campuses and the country.
In August 1776, the fate of Washington’s army—in fact, the fate of the entire Revolution—lay on the muscled shoulders of the fishermen and sailors of the Marblehead Regiment. The p...
Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge.
Links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which remain relevant on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration.
The fort's "Return of the Army" program, gives folks a glimpse at what it was like for troops in the Continental Army to return to Ticonderoga, after a failed invasion of Canada.
It’s time for our final segment in the Road to Revolution series we started four months ago. It’s July, 1776. After more than a year of war, debate, sacrifice, and uncertainty, the...
New York City is typically not lauded as a revolutionary site as much as cities like Boston or Philadelphia. During the war, however, it was of the utmost importance to both revolu...
It was Christmas night 1776, and the fire of the Revolutionary War was about to be snuffed out as the Revolutionary army had been in a steady retreat across New Jersey and into Pen...
The American Long Rifle was accurate at long distances, unlike British smoothbores.
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Washington Monument Washington, D.C., One of the most interesting question for Christians, American Christians in particular is whether the American Revoluti...
ON THE birth of the United States, Thomas Paine wrote: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” The historian Dominic Sandbrook cheekily calls the events that led t...
A rare diplomatic medal commissioned by the American revolutionaries for the Wabanaki Confederacy has gone on display in a free exhibition marking 250 years since American independ...
New archaeology has uncovered everything from musket balls to wig curlers at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the first major clash of the American Revolution
America’s fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled by a transnational élite an ocean away.
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