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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals of American liberty can be traced in the historic flags of militias. An early version of the Flag of the United States of America ...

"But 'The American Revolution' is the story of how we got a country." Burns, of course, has already covered the Civil War over the course of his career. He's also made films about World War II and ...

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein “didn’t realize for a long time” that the release of their upcoming six-episode series on the American Revolution would line up with the ...

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 ...