Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, ...

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession “a degradation and lessening of ourselves” and “an ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns and co-director David Schmidt recently visited Seattle to preview their new sweeping, six-part ...

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts addresses critical national issues at the American Legislative Exchange Council ...

Burns and “The American Revolution” co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

A new book recognizes Claire McCardell as a pioneer of American womenswear as we know it ...

The Lecturer's Art", McDougall often sounds like an Old Testament prophet warning his tribe of divine retribution.

The idea that America faces an inexorable, irreversible decline has become a form of conventional wisdom. Is this really true — or is it becoming so because of poor policy choices being made by its ...

In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the ...

Only six people attended his funeral. He was well known. Thomas Paine wrote the pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which was widely distributed and a major influence in promoting the American Revolution.

If a Democratic president threatened to use government power to pressure a name change, conservatives would be up in arms.

Dan Murphy is executive director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.