In this episode of Kings and Generals' animated historical series, we explore how the United States gained independence ...

Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

In the early morning of April 19, 1775, British troops clashed with American colonists in the fateful Battles of Lexington and Concord. It marked the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the ...

The first battle of the American Revolution was marked on Saturday in Lexington, Massachusetts, 250 years later, with a reenactment and a parade, along with other events. Many spectators arrived ...

But people from roughly a dozen of the areas Morrison has visited will march together in a parade on April 19, commemorating the 250 th anniversary of the American Revolution in Lexington and ...

shaping the American Revolution that ultimately led to the nation’s independence. Thousands of people from all over flocked to the Lexington Green and Minute Man National Historical Park in ...

A book by an emeritus professor at Brown argues that the revolution was one of the greatest the world has known and "affected ...

It began just after dawn on April 19, 250 years ago, with an abrupt spatter of gunfire in rural Massachusetts that left eight Americans dead on Lexington ... about the American Revolution has ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

The Historical Commission is sponsoring an event on the Old Burying Grounds on June 14 at 1 p.m. as part of the 250th ...

One of the best known battles of the American Revolution may have been in Lexington, Mass. But a historic house about 100 ...