The American Revolution was a defining moment in the history of Pennsylvania. Neighbor turned against neighbor amidst a desperate civil war in colonial America. Indigenous societies were uprooted ...

In his book “The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea From Thucydides to Lenin,” Dan Edelstein argues that the 18th of Brumaire did not end the French Revolution but consummated it.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country's founding and its eight-year War for Independence, will premiere on Sunday, November 16 at 7pm and ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution debuts on PBS Nov. 16. A tie-in book, The American Revolution: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, will be published Nov. 11 by Penguin ...

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 ...

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.

Once the French enter the war in 1778, the American Revolution becomes a world conflict, involving Europe, India and the Caribbean. ... where 1,500 French soldiers lost their lives, ...

By using surviving artifacts, eyewitness testimony, accurately reproduced uniforms, original firearms and the thorough study of battle sites, Don Troiani has done more than imagine what happened ...

How people of color participated in the American Revolution in Massachusetts and beyond 04:17. Massachusetts is marking the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago with several events this ...