While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution ... what mattered most was freedom. As the Revolutionary War spread through every region, those in bondage sided with ...

Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation, and in the process, making enemies in the West. Since taking power in ...

Unlike the Continental Army, the Navy recruited both free and enslaved blacks from the very start of the Revolutionary ... War was come to help the poor Negroes." Thomas was not the only African ...

The Robbins House in Concord commemorates the legacy of a previously enslaved Revolutionary War veteran. The house was originally inhabited by the first generation of descendants of a formerly ...

1766 National Museum of American History Pamphlet, Townshend's Revenue Act, 1767 National Museum of African American History and Culture Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770 ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

after the war, of a free, black settlement, named for the hated Union, made a dramatic claim to equality and liberty. The passionate man labeled as the “most influential African American of the ...

The Museum of African American History, which operates locations in Boston and Nantucket, was notified of the cuts late Wednesday night, according to museum president and CEO Noelle Trent.

the significant event in American history took place 250 years ago in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts. Not only was it the start of the Revolutionary War, but the beginning of America’s ...