This month sees the official launch of the Revolutionary War commemorations — the beginning of a year-and-a-half-long celebration leading up to next year’s Semiquincentennial. And the (mostly ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

April 9 marks the 160th anniversary of the day America’s Civil War ended when General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ...

Sergei Prokofiev was an established musical revolutionary of 26 when the Bolsheviks spread flame and famine across Russia in 1917. He had outjangled Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in his pagan ...

It was the events on April 19, 1775, celebrated annually as Patriot's Day in Massachusetts, that gave the colonists their first victory against the Crown, and after that there was no turning back: the ...

LEXINGTON — On April 19, 1775, the Revolutionary War began. On April 20, 1775, Concord and Lexington began fighting over where exactly that war began. Now, with the 250th anniversary approaching ...

The legendary Freedom Trail in Boston is all about the ladies during March, which is Women's History Month. The Freedom Trail Foundation is promoting its annual Revolutionary Women Tours, which ...