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What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution?
How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...
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This forgotten 18th-Century sex scandal almost overturned the British Army’s hierarchy
The court-martial of Robert Newburgh was about more than just his alleged crime – it was a battle over power and masculinity in the British ...
For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
Boston can’t host Bunker Hill 250th reenactment — where it’s happening instead
When colonial-era reenactors gather in June to mark the 250th anniversary of one of the American Revolution’s most ...
The story of a Black Revolutionary War hero who took on an entire British platoon lives on
The role of Billy Flora, a free Black man, in this pivotal victory — and the erosion later of rights — show a paradox of the ...
The things you learn making a film about the Revolution
The birth of our country may feel like a familiar story. But in making a documentary about it, we found plenty of revelations ...
On This Day: British evacuate Boston amid American Revolution
On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.
Revolutionary War spy James Lafayette now has his monument
The granite monument honors James Armistead Lafayette, who is believed to have been a double agent during the Revolutionary ...
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On This Day: British evacuate Boston amid American Revolution
It was led by Irish soldiers serving in the British army. In 2002, President George W. Bush became the first sitting U.S. president to take part in the event, more than six months after the Sept.