The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

Regardless of Oval Office revisionism, Americans should never forget that their nation was forged in resistance to political ...

The American Revolution was a turning point in modern history. It was one of the first successful movements to overthrow ...

Feel the sense of what it was like to be on the ground at the battlegrounds where the American Revolution was fought.

On May 10, 1773, the Tea Act was passed by Parliament and granted the British East India Company the right to directly ship tea to North America and the right to duty-free export of tea from Britain.

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world" on Lexington Green in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. The conflict ...

On June 23, 1775, Londoners focused on enjoying a regatta, not fretting about a brewing rebellion.

The Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775, 1910, oil on canvas by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936) By the spring of 1775, the upheaval in the British North American colonies had reached an advanced ...

In a wave of nonviolent rebellions, colonists took over local courthouses in Western and Central Massachusetts in 1774 and left the British reeling. “Western and Central Massachusetts was the founding ...

After the Boston Tea Party, the British Parliament passed measures taking control away from colonists. That included appointing new judges to rule on local disputes. “And so to have the British ...

The American Revolution started for a variety of political — and economic — reasons. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, ...