It has begun. A quarter of a millennium has now passed since events that birthed the longest continuous constitutional ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations of American ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

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

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

Local men who fought in the American Revolution came to life during a lecture on soldiers who influenced what turned into the American Revolution. North Andover Historical Society museum educator ...

The first armed conflict of the American Revolution began April 19, 1775, in Lexington, Massachusetts. A network of riders ...

American Antiquarian Society will have a "Start the Press" open house April 12 to celebrate printing of the Massachusetts Spy ...

On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began after more than a decade of growing disputes between the American colonies and the British government. As Ralph Waldo Emerson eloquently put ...

George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...