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

Andrew O'Shaughnessy, author of [The Men who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire], talked about the role played by British military leaders in the ...

During the American Revolution, not all colonists wanted nor fought for independence from England. Early American historians discussed the legacy of loyalists and examine why some wanted to remain ...

Volokh Conspiracy. Two Reflections on the American Revolution I recapitulate why it's important that the American Revolution was not an ethno-nationalist secession movement, and address claims ...

The British may no longer occupy Philadelphia, but the sights and sounds of 1777 were on full display this weekend. 24/7 Live Philadelphia Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware. Welcome, Mickey.

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.

It depicts a British lion facing off against four different powers: France as a cockerel; Spain and Holland as two dogs, and the American colonies as a snake. More than an uprising of discontented ...

American Revolution Reinvents Guerrilla Warfare In the new book Invisible Armies, author Max Boot traces the role of guerrilla warfare through history, starting in the Roman Empire all the way up ...

Shortly after the Sommerset decision, the American Revolutionary War against the British began in 1775. As the British were beginning to lose battles in the North early in 1775, they began to look ...

Precedents of the American Revolution. The British Government Never Assenting to ... 1781, between Mr. SKINNER and Mr. LORING, the British agent, by which 140 American officers and 476 privates ...

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.