While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

New England colonial militia stand in line while facing the British Regulars during a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and the start of the American ...

Much about the American Revolution has been forgotten or distorted. The nation’s Founders often are either embalmed in reverence or condemned for their manifest flaws.

As SC celebrates Carolina Day, the anniversary of Battle of Sullivan's Island, efforts are underway to raise awareness of SC's role in the Revolution.

The Museum of the American Revolution shows how the shifting ideals of American liberty can be traced in the historic flags of militias. ... The flags trace the evolution of revolutionary thought as ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord, and exchanged fire - the "shot heard ...