This video follows the bitter political chaos that erupted after George Washington left office. John Adams and Thomas ...

Readers sent hundreds of reflections on the nation’s 250th birthday in recent weeks, and we’ll publish a story about them on ...

As Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of independence, they are also celebrating the first attorneys general who ...

My dad was an Irish immigrant and so were my mom’s parents. America was fair to them, and they wanted to be fair to everyone ...

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional ...

The president besmirches the highest principles of the Declaration of Independence while embodying the tyrannical rule it ...

Now, as America prepares to celebrate 250 years of independence, we are confronted with a bitter irony: the republic born in rebellion against empire has become an empire in everything but name. Worse ...

The World Socialist Web Site's webinar marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution brought together leading historians to defend its revolutionary heritage at a moment of mounting ...

John Adams, the second president of the United States, and his successor Thomas Jefferson did not share the same view of ...

Last month during a trip to Washington, D.C., I revisited the Lincoln Memorial to read two inscriptions that so moved me on a ...