Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner "No Kings." ...

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence. We take it for granted now, but ...

The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for ...

After the 'No Kings' protests of June 14, two readers use the 4th of July to reflect on America's past and present.

The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

The train, actually a suite of nine railcars that can be hitched to commercial locomotives, will be decommissioned sometime ...

What the Olive Branch Petition suggests about the founders — and Americans today.

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the greatest breakup letter ever written. One could say that the audacious statement crafted by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...