Communities throughout Massachusetts are marking Black History Month by raising the Black American Heritage Flag.

Historian Richard Bell’s new book traces a global upheaval stretching from Philadelphia and London to Freetown and Madras.

An anti-regime protester scaled the balcony of Iran’s Embassy in London on Friday and tore down the Islamic Republic’s flag, replacing it with Iran’s pre-1979 “Lion and Sun” emblem, video shows. The ...

A protester scales the balcony outside the Iranian embassy in London to raise a pre-Islamic revolution flag in front of cheering demonstrators. Opinion: The US must take Greenland, whatever the cost ...

CHARLESTON — Many know the flag with the yellow field and coiled rattlesnake emblazoned with the words “Don’t Tread On Me.” Few outside of South Carolina, however, know its true origins. While this ...

Takeaways from Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” now streaming on PBS: History is not clean and simple. Events do not unfold in a linear and logical fashion that leads to inevitable ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

On Pearl Harbor Day, a team of elite skydivers flew a 3,200-square-foot American flag in freefall over Arizona, nearly doubling Libya’s recent mark and securing a new world record with a certified ...

In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...

Photographer Christopher Payne provides a peek into the surreal aesthetics of industry in the United States Emily Barske Wood - Freelance Writer Peeps Marshmallow Chicks cooling on a conveyor belt ...

Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the story. The American Revolution is no exception, and the actors involved are ...