America’s independence wasn’t declared in a day — it was forged through years of unrest, resistance, and revolution. This ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Rocky Mount Historic Site in Piney Flats held an event Saturday celebrating Colonial Independence Day. The event featured a ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

A Man Full of Trouble is Philadelphia’s last remaining example of colonial bar culture that birthed the American Revolution.

America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through ...

Africans in Colonial America Host Howard Berkes talks to Historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, about her research into the countries of origin of African-Americans. While preparing her 1992 book ...

The directive from his constituency was clear: reject the newly-written federal Constitution at New Hampshire’s ...

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