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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Personally, I think that the scientific revolution was an important factor in the birth of American freedom. Isaac Newton himself served in the English Parliament, and took part in some of the ...