The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin. Starting with Saturday's ...

The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

See where New Jersey stood 250 years ago as the Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

1774. It was the first of the Coercive, or Intolerable Acts, five laws passed by the British Parliament to suppress resistance to its authority over the American colonies. The second act ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

Library of Congress Though leaders sought to transcend inter-colonial rivalries—“I am not a Virginian, but an American,” Henry dramatically announced on September 6, 1774, in Carpenters ...

By 1774 Adams believed that American colonists no longer had a choice. The Tea Act was yet another unjust attempt by England to make the colonies pay for its vast empire. If Governor Hutchinson ...

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

The first option was to let the colonies go. The second was to unify the American colonies with Britain the way Scotland had been united with England. Smith himself was Scottish and, looking back ...

NOVA “Revolutionary War Weapons” Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 pm In April 1775, war breaks out in Britain’s most troublesome territory. Now the American Colonial Army faces what seems... Read More ...