LEXINGTON — Patriots’ Day weekend is truly one of the great New England rites of spring.  A small army of Islanders marched off to Lexington and Concord to observe the re-enactments and the parades on ...

As a nascent fighting force, the Continental Army was underestimated for the entirety of the American Revolutionary War. Just ...

The 250th birthday is referred to as the semiquincentennial or bisesquicentennial. As these names are a challenge to say, ...

On Monday, in honor of the American Revolution’s 250th anniversary, there was a ceremony led by veterans and a costumed ride ...

Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to ...

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

Thomas Gage struck words and added notes in the margins, pressing his quill hard in some spots on the most consequential letter he would ever write.

While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a ...

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

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

Reenactors showed thousands of people the story start of the American Revolutionary War and the "shot heard round the world" on its 250th anniversary.

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 ...