Opinion: As America rolls out a tacky and retrograde 250th anniversary celebration, the gay icon will unveil a very different vision of freedom, writes Josh Ackley.

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In 1828, German chemist Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea from inorganic compounds, a substance previously thought only ...

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“I went to Haight-Ashbury, expecting it to be this brilliant place,” George Harrison says at one point in The Beatles Anthology documentary, referring to his 1967 pilgrimage into the epicentre of the ...

The historian who recovered the radicalism of the American founding died on Sunday.

Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing—an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.

America’s fight for independence is often considered a battle fought and won at home. A new book argues that it was propelled ...

A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn ...

The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the ...

Now on view at the New York Historical, "Revolutionary Women" spotlights figures with connections to the state, including a ...

It’s where the British perfected their system of enslaved labor, George Washington visited and colonialism’s legacy can still ...