Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

On April 19, 1775, 250 years ago today, the first battles of the American Revolution took place at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The day of fighting, itself the outcome of a gathering ...

“I hope to see the day when the American flag will float over every square foot of the British North American possessions, clear to the North Pole,” Champ proclaimed on the House floo ...

are placed by Providence [that is, by God] in the post of honor, because it is the post of danger....The eyes not only of North America and the whole British Empire, but of all Europe, are upon you.

It survived largely thanks to its Indigenous allies in North America and backing from the British Empire. Aside from a few close calls in the 1800s, Americans have decided against conquering us ...

The more resilient troops who reached Quebec were emphatically defeated by British forces in December, making Washington skeptical of any future efforts to attack Canada. Following American ...

but fulfilling designs on bringing the Rest of British North America into the United States! We burned their parliament in Toronto, and the British returned the favor by burning the White House.

The anniversary of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War precedes a slew of planned celebrations when the United States marks ...

The British Army, in collaboration with Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S), the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ...

When the first shot rang out at dawn on Lexington Green, a decade of frustration and growing alienation between the American ...

As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...

19th-century divisions Following American independence, tens of thousands of loyal Colonists sailed north to Canada, determined to build British colonies that would become what one of these ...