A free press ignited the American Revolution History matters, especially when it informs the present. As we reflect on the ...

Fargo Public Library's Summer Reading Challenge featured a live American Revolution presentation, giving children a hands-on history lesson.

Many historians have recently seen it as a tame, even disappointing affair. But in the Trump era, the old question of its radicalism is taking on a fresh charge. By Jennifer Schuessler The Declaration ...

Before the American Revolution, the Cherokee peoples had a trading relationship with the British, and ended up fighting on their side during the war that gained independence for ...

LEXINGTON, Mass. — Charlie Price says he didn't learn much about the American Revolution in school. He knew about George Washington, the Battle of Bunker Hill and that the patriots won. It wasn't ...

This 1882 painting, “The Siege of Fort Henry” by J.A. Faris depicts one of the final battles of the Revolutionary War fought in what was then Wheeling, Virginia. Courtesy photo Editor’s note: The ...

It’s where the British perfected their system of enslaved labor, George Washington visited and colonialism’s legacy can still be felt. And, as a writer found on this small island, freedom is still ...

Americans want to Americanize the American Revolution. We accept the existence of a handful of single-named philosophical grandfathers—Locke and Montesquieu and the rest—and we recognize the help of a ...

The American Revolution was in progress during June of 1775 after the fighting began in Lexington and Concord Massachusetts in April. A military complex was formed in Albany beginning in 1775. The ...