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A reenactment of a Revolutionary War battle.

Placing the American Revolution in Global Perspective

Why did the American Revolution succeed while other revolutions in the same time period did not?

by Steven Pincus via Age of Revolutions on June 20, 2016

How the Rivalry Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton Changed History

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.

by John Ferling via TIME on February 15, 2016

Why Americans Love To Declare Independence

The 1776 Declaration was only the first. What we learn from the long history of splinter constitutions, manifestos, and secessions that followed.

by Robert L. Tsai via Boston Globe on June 29, 2014

Illustration of J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur writing.

The American Beginning

The dark side of Crèvecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer."

by Alan Taylor via The New Republic on July 19, 2013

Rembrandt Peale's portrait of Thomas Jefferson wearing a simple black coat.

Dressing Down for the Presidency

Thomas Jefferson's republican simplicity.

by Gaye Wilson via White House Historical Association on November 1, 2012

Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy.

Died on the 4th of July

Fisher Ames’s philosophy can be summed up as follows: the “power of the people, if uncontroverted, is licentious and mobbish.”

by Stephen B. Tippins via The American Conservative on July 3, 2012

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