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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - On this day in history, a critical defensive stand occurred in the early months of the American ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...