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

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

Many Americans of Generation X and older will recall the red, white, and blue American Freedom Train that was a centerpiece ...

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

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... members of the Lexington Minute Men reenactors group, have studied the period to understand what the mood was like among the colonists.

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 ...

signaling the start of the American Revolution. But very few have laid eyes on a letter written to Revere by his wife, Rachel, warning him not to return to Boston after his ride to Lexington ...