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

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 ...

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

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 ...

This is a mistake: the American Revolution should not be treated like ... was threatened by the encroaching power of the British Parliament and the Crown. The colonists were not afforded 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 ...