If you know the name Angelica Schuyler, you just might be a fan of “Hamilton,” where she stole the show by belting out ...

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In 1775, life went on normally for most though a revolution was coming. Columnist joe Holley says Americans today have a duty ...

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

Too often we tend to think that the Declaration of Independence was a creature which sprang to life between June 7, 1776, ...

It’s incorrect to say that simply because people belonged to the same church, they agreed with one another, writes.

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the English.

To celebrate the Fourth of July, the Village Voice takes a look at Frederick Douglass's powerful 1852 anti-slavery oration.