Behind every number is a life cut short, a family changed forever and an anecdote in the complex story of American military history. The Revolutionary War created the United States, while the ...

But J. L. Bell, a scholar who specializes in the start of the American Revolution and authored “The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War,” also gives a thumbs ...

Moreover, the conflict between the values of the American Revolution and the Trump political agenda goes much deeper. And that fact is likely to be fully exposed in the flood of books, op-eds ...

As the nation marks 250 years since the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which ignited the American Revolution, one mystery refuses to die. Who fired the first shot? It’s been called "the shot ...

"A lot of people today think of the American Revolution in broad strokes as being, you know, these rugged, hardy American frontiersmen, clad in buckskin hunting shirts, with their longrifles ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Rick Atkinson, a former reporter and editor at The Post, is author of the ...

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago this month, it can be harder to appreciate the life-and-death stakes in the colonists' fight for freedom. What did it feel like in ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established ...

Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year. This makes it a big year for one ...

The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk is the site of the collaboration between the American Battlefield Trust and National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The Rebecca Emery Chapter ...

For all his appeals to American greatness, he rarely extols the founding fathers, and once claimed he would have crushed a combined ticket of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. But Mr. Trump ...