What does a medieval fortress, an iconic red, white, and blue flag, and a massive fireworks display have in common They are ...

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 ...

“The Revolution to Come” is a trenchant intellectual history of the modern revolutionary project, seeking to explain both its tendency toward slaughter and its fatal attraction to despotism ...

Retropolis Was a woman the informant who helped launch the American Revolution? Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and ...

Join us for an evening with Ken Burns, moderated by Brene Brown, June 5th at 7pm at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the latest documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah ...

A tie-in book, The American Revolution: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, will be published Nov. 11 by Penguin Random House. Got something to say on the subject?

The militiamen who stood in defiance on Lexington Green are the first who fired upon the British regulars, but the road to revolution was paved long before gunfire erupted on that cold April ...

Valkyries’ win over Storm showcases next wave in WNBA’s French revolution Carla Leite of Golden State got her first WNBA start while Seattle’s Dominique Malonga, the former No. 2 overall ...

250 years since the start of the American Revolution, a look at Dartmouth’s ‘very strange corner’ of the conflict To commemorate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, The ...

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.

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

Once the French enter the war in 1778, the American Revolution becomes a world conflict, involving Europe, India and the Caribbean.