1776 Unites, a group that says it wants to "shape the American future by drawing on the best of its past," released its first curriculum program this week in part to counter the New York Times' 1619 ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Nov. 2 forming the 1776 Commission, an advisory committee in the Department of Education to promote what he refers to as “patriotic education.” ...

Thomas Paine, a reluctant English tax collector and failed businessman who arrived in America on the eve of revolution, published "Common Sense" on this day in history, Jan. 10, 1776. "In the ...

In celebration of Frederick Douglass’s birthday, the Washington Examiner has published a number of special essays on the topics of race, slavery, and the achievement of the United States’s highest ...

During the closing days of the Trump administration, the outgoing president fulfilled a promise to issue a report that promotes a “patriotic education” about race and the birth of the nation. The ...

A string of numbers. A code? A password? Once separated in the center, the meaning instantly becomes clear to historians and history teachers. These numbers represent dates, two years fraught with ...

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It is important for us as citizens, and for our children and grandchildren, to learn about the principles of the founding of America. Understanding our 1776-based history builds our collective ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote during the fateful year of 1776, and indeed they were. Reeling from a string of humiliating and costly defeats, plagued by sickness and ...

The famous historical musical 1776 got a makeover. First hitting Broadway in 1969, 1776 is a musical about the events leading up to both the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Madeleine Brand talks with Slate columnist David Greenberg about the ongoing tension among historians over how to make history accessible without compromising the facts. The discussion comes as ...