Gordon S. Wood, a professor of history emeritus at Brown University, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book “The Radicalism of the American Revolution.” John Adams of Massachusetts and ...

Though it rarely spills out into public view in quite the way it has recently, there is a longstanding debate within the academy over just how revolutionary the American Revolution really was. Some ...

The Revolution was one of the most important historical events of the past 2,000 years. It established the world’s most ...

The American Revolution : writings from the pamphlet debate / Gordon S. Wood, editor Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Object ... v. 2. includes twenty works from the crucial years when the debate ...

In effect, the American Revolution did not end when Gen. Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington; it has been a living and constantly growing set of truths.

On April 19, it'll be the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which kicked off the American Revolution. For me, the day has an almost sacred appeal. It's the day that the ...

In the argument for those who think the American Revolution was not fought for freedom, but to preserve slavery, the key piece of evidence for this came from the 1775 Dunmore Proclamation.

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.