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

Captain John Parker and 77 armed Americans stood on ... was about to ignite the American Revolution and change world history forever. Parker was 45 years old and riddled with tuberculosis.

“The Revolution on Cape Cod and the Islands: Issues, Events, and People” focuses on events that took place across the Cape ...

John Parker, who commanded the militiamen ... Parker would not live to see the end of the Revolution and the birth of the American nation he had a hand in creating. At the young age of 45, he ...

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

Information from the Library of Congress states that the stone portion of the structure was built by John Parker in 1702; the wooden section was added prior to the start of the Revolutionary War.

All five are famous (and infamous) figures of the American Revolution. But do you know the story of John Parker? Peter Salem? John Glover? Hugh Mercer? The stories of these great patriots are ...

“What do we mean by the American Revolution?” he wondered ... a flawed but still-united people. As Captain John Parker said at Lexington Green in April 1775: “Let it begin here.” ...

The Army Reserve traces its lineage to the citizen-Soldiers of the American Revolution through men such as Capt. John Parker, whose militia stepped forward in times of crisis. Formally recognized ...

In 1887, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell spoke to a packed house at the Congregational Church in New Haven, Vermont. The U.S. congressman from Iowa and radical abolitionist in the lead-up to the Civil ...

The film explores the life and impact of John Marshall ... as a powerful institution in American governance. Born in Virginia in 1755, Marshall served in the Revolutionary War and later became ...

“It’s not that I think he is definitely the man who fired first,” states historian and author J.L. Bell, who writes the daily blog Boston 1775 about the American Revolution. “But if I ...