For generations, historians have downplayed the American Revolution as a squabble between elites. But the revolution unleashed egalitarian forces its architects could neither control nor contain.

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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 ...

A look back at the economic and aesthetic cross-pollination between mother country and colony 250 years after the US declared ...

Few figures did more to build modern Canada than William Van Horne. The irrepressible railroad executive drove the laying of the ribbons of steel that brought commerce and settlement to the West, ...

“I must study war and diplomacy so that my children may study mathematics and science so that their children may study art and philosophy,” wrote John Adams as he explained his sense of duty and how ...

The story of the US is, in many ways, remarkable. It achieved independence against the odds, its constitution has lasted more ...

The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to curb birthright citizenship on Monday, ...

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