Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

A letter written by Thomas Jefferson will go up for auction on July 4. Estimators value the letter, which discusses the right ...

Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

They may call it No Kings, anti-ICE, ‘Hands Off,’ pro-Palestine, ‘mostly peaceful’ looting and burning protests of BLM or Defund the Police, anti-fascism, the National Student Walkout for ‘sensible ...

Holidays span cultures and time, and sometimes even lie in religious or secular commemorations. As they allow families to ...

In up-close looks at war via videos, museum-goers can go back to the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill, an intense scene of ...

This war ended in a stalemate and The Treaty of Ghent, signed in 1814, re-established the border as effectively unchanged. British North America eventually became Canada in 1867 when the ...