Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns joins TODAY to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States and looks back on the ...

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 ...

Faced with a dire job market, falling wages and endless competition, many young Chinese are recreating scenes from the early ...

Fourth of July streaming spikes revive classic patriotic films as audiences seek history, nostalgia and Americana.

“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 ...

Some of the generals and politicians egging the soldiers on hoped that George Washington would take up his men's cause and in ...

For many years, my son and I observed the tradition of watching, on Independence Day, the movie “Independence Day.” “Independence Day” is not – if you’re a stickler for historical accuracy -- a movie ...

“Our founders did worry a lot about the future emergence of a demagogue,” Chernow said. “Their fear was what used to be ...

In 1771, Benjamin Franklin wrote to the artist Charles Willson Peale: “The arts have always travelled westward, and there is no doubt of their flourishing hereafter on our side of the Atlantic, as the ...

Murder, suicide, spontaneous combustion, sleepwalking, ventriloquism: these are some of the sensational events in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810). As the United States’ first ...

Fixderma, a new entrant in India’s men’s skincare market, has found a playful and topical groove in a category still stuck ...

The American battle for independence is alive and well in these 5 games perfect for your July 4th celebration.