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

The first battles of the American Revolution between the U.S. Minutemen and British on April 19, 1775. In the Battle of Lexington, the Massachusetts militia immediately placed the British in ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

Professor Benjamin Carp talks about some of the advantages and disadvantages for both the British and American forces during the American Revolution. He also described how individual personalities ...

A painting depicts Paul Revere warning patriots of impending British landings in Lexington on April 18, 1775. Getty Images. Her mother, Gertrude Bayard, was an American-born aristocrat with ties ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on ...

A further act that strained the British colonists was the Quartering Act of 1765, which mandated American colonies to provide housing, food, and supplies to British soldiers stationed within their ...

Professor Benjamin Carp talks about some of the advantages and disadvantages for both the British and American forces during the American Revolution. He also described how individual personalities ...