Compared to the dictators and totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, British rule in 1776 seems almost mild, but there was a deeper political conflict.
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While Perl-Rosenthal sees the ideals of the Revolution at the center of the American story, Yii-Jan Lin puts the Book of ...
The founding generation in America was not of one mind. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson differed on crucial ideas, but ...
For decades, women’s health has long been underrepresented in clinical research – understudied, oversimplified, and forced to fit models built around male biological averages. Conditions shaped by ...
Sometimes the best things in life really are free, and they’re hiding in plain sight in Kokomo. The Elwood Haynes Museum is ...
In early 1777, British General John Burgoyne hatched a plan to take over New York’s Hudson River Valley and end the American Revolution by cutting off the colonists’ maritime supply routes. Fort ...
TV production schedules being what they are, it seems unlikely that “Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution” was intended as a direct response to the recent Ken Burns epic on the same ...
Uncle Sam shaking hands with the Marquis de Lafayette. (Library of Congress) Sure, we’ve all heard the tales of George Washington’s exploits, Paul Revere’s famous “one if by land, two if by sea” ride, ...
“Money makes the world go round,” the cynical old maxim, and Broadway show tune, runs. “Follow the money,” a maxim minted in the film “All the President’s Men,” has become just as familiar. Yet in ...
The story of the American Revolution is often framed as a heroic win over the British government. Brave colonists persevered through horrors like the Boston Massacre to overcome the tyrannical King ...
Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Mondays, May 18 and 25, 2026 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV Lucy Worsley investigates one of history’s most explosive break-ups: the 18th century split between Britain and its 13 ...