Spoken or unspoken, all the essays on America’s semiquincentennial that follow in this special symposium conjure with the defining question of our political dispensation. The question was articulated ...

NEW YORK (WCSC) — Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers as he stepped down from command after the Revolutionary War on Dec. 4, 1783. The gathering happened at Fraunces Tavern in lower ...

George Washington retired from the Continental Army in front of his officers at a tavern in New York following the Revolutionary War. The address he gave was described as an emotional moment; everyone ...

The two documents are the bookends of the American Revolution. That revolution began with the inspirational language of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote much of the Declaration of Independence; it ended ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The two documents are the bookends of the American Revolution. That revolution began ...