Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

It's the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, and it's still not clear who fired the first shot of the ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The rebels already believed their cause was bigger than a disagreement ... Many protesters carried signs inspired by the American Revolution including, “Resist Like Its 1775,” and one even ...

That whole thing about "no taxation without representation"? Those taxes were mostly import duties on goods imported from Britain.

President Trump is not just unraveling a system of government, he's denying the American Creed, the truths we have considered self-evident since 1776.

(THE CONVERSATION) Patriots’ Day, a commemoration of the battles of Lexington and Concord – the first confrontations of the American Revolution – holds historical value as a symbol of American ...

Dan Vesco | Haymarket, Virginia It’s hard to say for sure why specific places weren’t renamed, but overall, the American Revolution brought limited change. From the outset, many colonists ...

“Sparks of the Revolution: James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy”: by Todd ... his life were so important and essential to the cause of his country, as those of Mr. Otis from 1760 ...

His daughters, Karon Ornadel and Kirstein Powell, confirmed the death but did not say what the cause was or where ... He promoted the idea that the American Revolution was about much more than ...