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The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783, in which the Thirteen Colonies in North America rejected British rule and established the United States of America as an independent nation.
A compilation of President Donald J. Trump’s public remarks shows recurring, explicit language tying contemporary cultural fights to the American Revolution and lauding the Founders; the record in the...
The 1619 Project reframed public debate by centering slavery and its legacies in the American story, winning acclaim and a Pulitzer while provoking sustained scholarly and political backlash over fact...
Yes — have been stationed on at various times in history, but usually not as independent “foreign bases”; the pattern ranges from allied training detachments and integrated commands in the Cold War an...
The phrase “Don’t Tread on Me” emerged from a longer, older colonial visual language: ’s mid‑18th century rattlesnake imagery helped seed a symbol of colonial unity, and crystallized that imagery into...
in the took many forms—symbolic imagery and mottos, persuasive pamphlets and verse, civic boycotts and associative norms—each designed to bind disparate colonists into a single “American” polity while...
Freemasonry is a centuries-old fraternal movement that grew out of medieval stonemasons' guilds and became a formalized, speculative fraternity in Britain in the early 18th century . It presents itsel...