Right-wing British Member of Parliament Nigel Farage responded favorably to the idea of the United States joining the British ...

George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During both the first and now the second term of President Donald Trump, ...

As Alexis Coe writes in her history of the First Continental Congress, today, George III is “remembered as the man who lost ...

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.

In 1773 Samuel Adams, John's cousin and a revolutionary ... British Parliament then passed the Tea Act, which granted the British East India Company a monopoly to sell tea in the American colonies.

The American Revolution was about to begin. An engraving of British soldiers entering Concord on April 19, 1775 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The recent Salem debacle had been etched in Gage ...

The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...

Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt ... the floor of the House of Lords to argue that members of the British Parliament “have no right to tax the Americans.” ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having legal Representation, are we not reduced from the Character of free ...

The British Parliament had imposed a tax on the colonies ... to be the start of the American Revolution. Prominent Rhode Islanders rowed out to the Gaspee, which had run aground near Warwick.