Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, historians are remembering an incident involving gunpowder in Williamsburg that helped ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

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

Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...

April 2025 marks 250 years since the famous "shot heard round the world" was fired, beginning a chain of events that resulted in the establishment of a new American ... same time period to up ...

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