A new biography by Willard Sterne Randall shows how 18th-century Boston’s most popular businessman put his mark on the ...

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

In 2010, construction crews working in Lower Manhattan found the remains of a Revolutionary War-era gunboat buried deep ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

Set in 18th-century Cornwall, the show follows a strapping young British Army veteran as he rebuilds his life after war. With ...

In May 1763, an alliance of Delaware and other tribes laid siege to Fort Pitt in present-day Pittsburgh to drive British ...

Though the worst of these laws had been reformed by the end of the 18th ... century and a small Catholic middle class was emerging, they were still barred from political office. Inspired by the ...

Ross is a British Army veteran who was an ensign sent to the American Revolutionary War. Upon his return to his home in Cornwall, Ross finds out his father has died and left his estate in ruins.

As the nation prepares to celebrate America’s semiquincentennial, George Washington’s Mount Vernon will host a full day of ...

Under the floorboards of the U.S. Capitol lie hidden staircases and passageways left over from the iconic building's original construction in the 18th century ... was used by British soldiers ...

Under the floorboards of the U.S. Capitol lie hidden staircases and passageways left over from the iconic building's original construction in the 18th century ... was used by British soldiers ...