This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The American Philosophical Society's new exhibit for the 250th birthday of America documents daily life in Philadelphia ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

St. Lawrence County legislators want to celebrate the more than 300 Revolutionary War patriots burned in St. Lawrence County ...

Legally, there were few distinctions between married white women and enslaved women and men in 18th-century America.

Thousands of people are expected to turn out on April 19 as Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, and Arlington commemorate their ...

Local observances are planned for the midnight ride warning the British were coming 250 years ago. The Capt. James Neal ...

The Boonesborough Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) invited the Transylvania Chapter in Lexington to bring their touring exhibit, “Revolutionary Threads: Uniforms of Revolution ...

John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote in the darkening days of December 1776, when the American cause appeared doomed on the battlefield. “The summer soldier and the sunshine ...