In the early 19th century, a gifted and divisive figure from France became a political giant in Europe – and it wasn’t ...

As Massachusetts celebrates the romanticized 250th anniversary of the battles of Concord and Lexington, we need an honest and ...

The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour PBS documentary, is set to premiere in November, months before the nation's ...

We celebrate the 1773 Boston Tea Party and ignore the extraordinary 1773 petition for freedom of an enslaved man to the ...

The second volume in Pulitzer-winning historian Rick Atkinson's planned trilogy on the American Revolution publishes Tuesday.