Revolutionary America Documentary Helps Americans Understand Our Great Inheritance

Revolutionary America Helps Today’s Americans Understand Our Great Inheritance

Revolutionary America gives viewers a chance to learn about American exceptionalism from the men who fought, bled, and died so that our nation might exist.

In Honor of America 250, the Films That Shaped My Patriotism—and Maybe Yours

In Honor of America 250, the Films That Shaped My Patriotism—and Maybe Yours

Rewriting American Movie History

Why scorn triumphalism when talking about American movies that conquered the world?

Before 1776, There Was 1649

What Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution meant to America’s revolutionaries.

What's Truly Radical About America's Revolution

What's Truly Radical About America's Revolution

Freedom Round the Globe review: Did a planet in revolt create modern America?

If you’re interested in the Revolutionary War that culminated in the creation of the independent United States of America, then this book is a cracking read, writes Dylan Jones

A Birthday Letter to America

by Chap Petersen A long time ago, I was a freshman at an elite New England college, just graduated from Fairfax High School. (“F-A-I-R-F-A-X-R-E! B-E-L-S, Oh yes! Those Rebels are best!”). On a gorgeous fall morning in 1987, I was taking a class in Colonial American history, when the topic turned to the American Revolution. []

Prince William’s surprising American roots trace back to patriots who battled the British: book

A new book called American Crown reveals Prince William descends from Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale and colonial ancestors who fought Britain.

America at 250: Will our Founding Ideals Survive?

Photo Credit: John TrumballBy Scott S. PowellInasmuch as the Founding Fathers and Lincoln were all willing to give their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to establish and save the nation, how should Americans now think about their obligations?

America The Faithful – 250 Years of ‘One Nation, Under God’

On the occasion of our national holidays, we are often called to remember what America stands for, and to honor those who made great sacrifices for the liberties that we enjoy today. As this year marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we will celebrate our independence, remember our founding []

Freethought TV celebrates the “real” American Revolution with special July 4 programming

The truly revolutionary idea behind the Declaration of Independence wasn’t simply breaking away from Britain. It was establishing the first secular democracy in human history. This Independence Day, Freethought TV ... More » from Freethought TV celebrates the “real” American Revolution with special July 4 programming The post Freethought TV celebrates the “real” American Revolution with special July 4 programming appeared first on Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Nicole Krauss: On the strangeness of pledging allegiance to the flag

An irreconcilable sense of alienation and belonging has been one of America’s many gifts to me

I'm Proud to Be an American

I'm Proud to Be an American

Prince of Persia creator returns with perfect America 250 gift for July 4

Liberty is a new graphic novel from Jordan Mechner that might be a history buff dad's American Revolution dream gift.

LARRY KUDLOW: We Must Fight for Our Freedoms

The language of the Declaration of Independence underscores the greatness of American core values and our economy.

SSR Mining's American Rebirth Unlocks Great Value

SSR Mining's American Rebirth Unlocks Great Value

Selling Our Birthright

Most Americans have been raised since childhood to understand that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution confers American citizenship automatically at birth to all those newborns fortunate enough to find themselves on United States territory. Unlike European countries or, for that matter, almost everywhere in the world, America, we are taught in elementary school civics classes, welcomes citizens on the basis of ius soli, the law of the soil, rather than ius sanguinis. The post Selling Our Birthright appeared first on .

What Latin America's liberators learned from the American Revolution

What Latin America's liberators learned from the American Revolution

Hey, About That 'Death to America' Thing...

Hey, About That 'Death to America' Thing...

America and France: Tale of Two Revolutions 🇺🇸 🇫🇷

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Donald Trump Celebrates America’s Two-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Birthday

At the Great American State Fair, in Washington, D.C., and at the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Library, in North Dakota, the President casts himself as the rightful heir to American greatness.

America's Libertarian Revolution

In the deepest sense, the American Revolution was a conscious majority revolution on behalf of libertarianism and against power.

Here’s what socialists get wrong about the Founding Fathers

As socialists appear to rise in America, attacks on the country’s Founders oddly are accompanied by efforts to co-opt the Revolution and American values. For instance, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has emphasized how the Revolution was a battle against billionaires of the revolutionary period. This distracts from the fundamental point of the Revolution: that the []

AND ON MY DEATHBED I SHALL CALL OUT 'AMERICA'!

'Happy' 250th, from your Wonkette!

Gratitude

We will celebrate the Declaration of Independence tomorrow in our accustomed style, quoting Abraham Lincoln and Calvin Coolidge. Implicit in the tributes of Lincoln and Coolidge to the Declaration is an expression of gratitude — for our liberty — to the men who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to win it. To express our gratitude properly, we need to bring them to mind, recall their names,

How the Story of Young George Washington Offers Some Important Civic Lessons

Words like “failure” and “hardship” probably aren’t the first that come to mind in describing the legacy of the United States’ first president, George Washington. While Washington is generally viewed through a lens of strength in leading the colonies through the American Revolution 250 years ago, a new movie aims to deepen the nation’s understanding []

250 Years of Dressing for the American Dream

Freedom It began with the chance to define a new set of laws and governance, to reject the inherited trappings (or traps) of class. Aspiration The term “American dream” wasn’t officially coined until 1931, when the popular historian James Truslow Adams published the best seller “The Epic of America.” It codified the idea of the []

The Birthplace of the United States

It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.

‘Independence Day 1776’: Revolutionary AI Short Reveals the ‘True Story’ of America’s Break From England

‘Independence Day 1776’: Revolutionary AI Short Reveals the ‘True Story’ of America’s Break From England

Tributes paid to businessman and philanthropist Martin Naughton

Tánaiste Simon Harris paid tribute to the ‘exceptional businessman, an incredible philanthropist and an all-round thoroughly good human being’.

Let Us Celebrate a 250-Year History of American Radicalism

The Left should make the most of this Semiquincentennial and start reminding Americans of the radicalism and revolution at the heart of the history of this country, writes historian Harvey Kaye.

Rantz: The world fell in love with America at the World Cup. New York just elected people who can’t stand it.

World Cup visitors can't stop praising America while New York Democrats just handed primary wins to socialists who literally wipe their hands on the flag.

AFP Debuts Video Celebrating the Declaration of Independence Ahead of America’s 250th

WASHINGTON, D.C.— As America approaches its 250th anniversary, Americans for Prosperity and its friends and partners are spotlighting the enduring importance of the Declaration of Independence through a new video released today, which will also be featured at the Great American State Fair on Thursday, July 2nd. The video underscores the founding principles embedded in the [] The post AFP Debuts Video Celebrating the Declaration of Independence Ahead of America’s 250th appeared first on Americans for Prosperity.

What bringing history to life means for reenactors

With hand-sewn uniforms and an unwavering love of history, reenactors in Massachusetts have been celebrating America 250 for over a decade. We caught up with them at the Battle of Gloucester and found there's no detail to small to remember as the nation celebrates its founding. (American Revolutionary War: 1775-1783)