After peaceful attempts at alliance-building stalled, the Continental Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Quebec in June ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced ...

The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour PBS documentary, is set to premiere in November, months before the nation's semiquincentennial.

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Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir, published 50 years ago, launched a revolution in literature ... If you could get her to write a book...’” That book became I Know Why the Caged Bird ...

But no one knows who fired first, or why. And the revolt itself was initially less a revolution than a demand for better terms. Woody Holton, a professor of early American history at the ...

Have you ever wondered why English spelling often seems to defy logic — like why choir and liar rhyme, but laughter and ...

Grinnell’s address, reprinted in the book “New Haven ... who writes the daily blog Boston 1775 about the American Revolution. “But if I could go back in time, he’s the first person ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolutionary War began 250 years ago ...