The 1920s saw renewed individualism as bankers and financial entrepreneurs speculated wildly with consumer deposits and ...

John Ferling’s “Shots Heard Round the World” explores how France and Spain came to help the colonies throw off England’s rule ...

Isaiah Thomas, a revolutionary patriot and printer of the radical Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy, snuck his printing ...

NOVA “Revolutionary War Weapons” Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 pm In April 1775, war breaks out in Britain’s most troublesome ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

As the British pushed deeper into North America, they ended up giving Indians concessions that colonists would not tolerate.

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor helped kick-start the southern colonies' embrace of the radical cause ...

In his international history of the Revolutionary War ... and Concord in April 1775. A colonial rebellion quickly turned into a civil war across British America. To defeat and dismantle the ...

This project is supported in part by a grant from the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission ... Yorktown Foundation) In other Colonies, British forces later offered freedom to men enslaved ...

NEW KENT — Nearly two-and-a-half centuries after providing critical intelligence that helped the United States clinch victory in the Revolutionary War, an American patriot will finally have a ...

BERLIN (AP) — Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago: to bring back for a proper burial the head of a ...