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

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

The road to revolution was filled with mistakes, miscommunications, and massive turning points. From unfair taxes to bloody ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

One of the most influential conservative voices of the last half-century, Horowitz was a powerful writer, speaker, and ...

Also invoking King’s legacy was David Houle of Highland Park. Raised on the South Side of Chicago and now in his 70s, his ...

Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year. This makes it a big year for one ...

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... and a major financier of the patriot cause. Adams had helped plan the Boston Tea Party. At about 11:30 p.m. that evening, Paul ...

Once the French enter the war in 1778, the American Revolution becomes a world conflict ... and the intense suffering caused by hunger, exposure and disease on troops, displaced citizens and ...

For 250 years, historians have argued over who fired first at the Battle of Lexington, when Massachusetts militiamen faced British soldiers about 20 miles west of Boston.

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...