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

That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation ...

That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation ...

Heather Cox Richardson spoke at an event marking the 250th anniversary of the lighting of the lanterns at Boston’ ...

One if by land; two if by sea.” Who can forget that memorable passage from Longfellow’s epic poem chronicling the eve before ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...

Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to ...

“Free colonists, who are living in the colonies in the 1760s, think they're part of the greatest empire since Rome because ...

The story of Peter Francisco may have ended in Richmond, but it began in the Azores, which is 3,000 miles away from Richmond, right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world ...

In 1765, Henry won a seat in Virginia's colonial legislature. He was instrumental in opposing Great Britain's Stamp Act, which levied a direct tax on the American colonies to raise money for Britain.