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 ...

A century ago, in his classic book Public Opinion, the journalist Walter Lippmann laid out a bleak argument: One of the ...

Times, people, and places that might seem dull or far away in a textbook come to living, breathing life in historical novels like the ones on this list. From the Middle Ages to the American Revolution ...

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

signaling the start of the American Revolution. But very few have laid eyes on a letter written to Revere by his wife, Rachel, warning him not to return to Boston after his ride to Lexington ...

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

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The Museum of the American Revolution on Saturday unveiled the largest exhibit of Revolutionary War flags in more than two centuries, featuring about half of the 30 flags still known to exist. The ...

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 ...

Mark Mishnish, executive director of the Cutchogue-New Suffolk Historical Council & Museums, Joseph Vermaelen, vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution National Organization ...

The battles, which resulted in the deaths of 49 American militia members, are considered the first of the Revolutionary War ... he made stops in other historical towns, including Concord, during ...

It’s one of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding the American Revolutionary War ... A Massachusetts Historical Society document reading: “A List of the Names of the Provincials who ...