We celebrate the 1773 Boston Tea Party and ignore the extraordinary 1773 petition for freedom of an enslaved man to the ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...

The Museum of Printing is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. An 18th-century English Common Press ...

At the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, a new exhibition has gathered together 17 historic flags that ...

As Massachusetts celebrates the romanticized 250th anniversary of the battles of Concord and Lexington, we need an honest and ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

As the nation marks 250 years since the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which ignited the American Revolution ... In other words, the "fog of war" was already thick before a war had even ...

Protesting the deportations, cost-cutting, program eliminating and other actions of President Donald Trump’s administration, the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution was not ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Rick Atkinson in Lexington, Mass., about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution, "The British are Coming." ...