William Thompson deserves plaudits as one of many whose early service led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – best known for its opening line, “By the Rivers of Babylon,” a centerpiece ...

William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...

According to research done by the U.S. Army War College, William Thompson's commission as the colonel of the Pennsylvania ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from colonial times ...

Concord unleashed to the world America's musical contributions, which sprang from our universal appeal as a nation.

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

The Declaration of Independence is a revolutionary document that transformed governance from monarchy to democracy and ...

A document beginning, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident,’ meaning obvious, kindles something new: the American spirit.

July 4, also known as Independence Day, marks the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the 13 North American colonies officially separated from Great Britain. As the Fourth of July ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

These principles were not revolutionary but “ancient” and universal, they argued. “By one Statute it is declared, that Parliament can ‘of right make Laws to bind us in all Cases whatsoever,’” their ...