On the morning of April 19, 1775, a loosely formed patriot militia fired the “shots heard ’round the world” when they faced ...

The Patriot, 1776, and The Crossing are all among the absolute best movies about the American Revolutionary War.

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 ...

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 ...

It opened the battles of Lexington and Concord, which, in turn, ignited the American Revolutionary War and resulted in the creation of the United States. Gen. Thomas Gage led the British Army in ...

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

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people descended on Lexington and Concord to commemorate the historic start of the American Revolution, exactly 250 years after the “shot heard round the world.” The ...

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