Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

NOVA “Revolutionary War Weapons” Wednesday, April 9 at 9:00 pm In April 1775, war breaks out in Britain’s most troublesome ...

Was 1775 really the main pivot point in the fight for independence? 1760? 1607? The Founders themselves weren’t sure.

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...