If Parliament was going to make these kinds ... "The shot heard 'round the world" launched the American Revolution. The Redcoats were able to push their way through the militia and march on ...

A recent Supreme Court oral argument about the liability of the FBI for invading and terrorizing the wrong home has brought ...

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... the mother country and her Massachusetts colony were beyond estranged. Parliament had imposed onerous taxes without representation ...

Wood, a professor of history emeritus at Brown University, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his book “The Radicalism of the American Revolution ... the Authority of Parliament over the ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

Many of the men who took part in the Congress left traces across the state that remain visible today. Witherspoon's home, ...

Aieta said the colonists believed their rights as subjects of the British crown were being impinged, and they had the right to resist violations of their rights by Parliament and the British military.