South Shore historical societies invite residents to help present fictional play on how locals reacted to start of the American Revolution.

Many people like to read historical fiction. But how might they feel ... focuses on the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago. Some playgoers may decide to help recreate how local ...

In Laurie Halse Anderson’s novel for young readers, a girl in Boston must survive a dangerous smallpox epidemic—and ...

Those who fight their nation’s wars are typically those least able to avoid it.” Ray Deptula’s Damned Yankees plunges readers deep into the tumultuous years of the American Revolution, offering a ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

The local chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution honored a pioneer of the Coachella Valley with a Women in American ...

In the Mexican American war, six child cadets, fought U.S. forces to the death at the Battle of Chapultepec... or so the ...

In Airless Spaces, the feminist theorist dramatizes what happens when capitalist alienation makes everybody miserable.