Ray Raphael

Thomas Jefferson's declaration might be the most famous, but it wasn't the first.

Parliament's 1774 revocation of Massachusetts's charter and the representative government it enshrined was the last straw for many colonists in Worcester.

When the founders were hashing out how they would structure the executive branch, some were concerned about placing too much authority in one person.

How memory plays tricks with history.

Hidden within this most pervasive mythology of the Revolution is a distortion of the Revolutionary experience.

How did George Washington, one of America’s elite 1%, become its leading revolutionary? His evolution came in stages.