The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition to good strategy and the timely appearance of key allies like the French, ...

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

From the bravery of the Massachusetts Minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War, Massachusetts was a host for several key happenings during ...

The capture by American forces in May 1775 marked a turning point in the early days of the Revolutionary War, Green Mountain ... a cache of weapons that the Continental Army later used to force ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced ...

From the bravery of the Massachusetts Minutemen to the famous midnight ride of Paul Revere to the very first battle of the Revolutionary War ... in an attempt to seize weapons from the colonists.

This gun was carried by John Munroe as he joined other colonial militiamen in facing down British troops on Lexington Green.

His sentiment was one shared by many in New Jersey at the time, said Todd Braisted, an American Revolution historian ... had been escalating for years, but war was not yet a certainty.

It’s less than two months until the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, one of the most important battles of the ...

After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...

The house was originally inhabited by the first generation of descendants of a formerly enslaved African American Revolutionary War veteran, Caesar Robbins ... the plumed hat who stands before him ...