Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

The Pulaski Banner stands out not only for its striking design but for the extraordinary story it shares about the ...

The birth of the American Revolution 07:48. ... Hancock was one of the wealthiest men in the colonies, and a major financier of the patriot cause. Adams had helped plan the Boston Tea Party.

Frontier and revolution. History professor Paul Musselwhite described the Upper Valley as a “very strange corner of the American Revolution.” The Upper Valley was considered a frontier, only recently ...

Burns, in Charleston for a preview of this team’s new “The American Revolution” documentary that comes out in six months, said South Carolinians of 250 years ago faced a gruesome civil war ...

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.