The United States declared its independence from Great Britain 250 years ago, but the flashpoint of the Revolutionary War ...

The British punished rebellious New Englanders by depriving them of their livelihood. This led unemployed mariners to enlist ...

The conflicts that took place elsewhere in the world have receded from our collective imagination, but the American rebellion ...

Seventeen cannons dating to the Siege of Savannah in 1779 by American and French forces were recovered from the Savannah ...

After British soldiers fired into a crowd of protesters in Boston on March 5, 1770, that event was described as a "massacre" ...

The Catholic Church in the United States in 1776 was so tiny that it didn’t play a major role in the American Revolution—but ...

Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine and the Declaration of Independence all turned to divine sanction to make the case for breaking ...