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

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year. This makes it a big year for one ...

(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 ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...

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

Exactly 250 years ago today, ragtag Patriot militias engaged British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord in what would become the first battle of the Revolutionary War, one against the tyranny ...

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 ...

In a deeply divided time, many came to the original battlefield to remember the principles the U.S. was founded on.

“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 ...

The American Revolution in South Carolina was often less ... but it was not uncommon for them to join a cause based on family allegiances and who was fighting on the other side.