In Military Loyalists of the American Revolution Prof. Dornfest (emeritus, CUNY Staten I) gives us a detailed work that is both biographical dictionary of literally thousands of officers who served in ...

Sure, you can learn about the American Revolution in history books. Or you can experience it in real life—in the actual place where history was made—during this upcoming exhibit at Fraunces Tavern ...

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

Adams knew the American Revolution had to build up a new government, not merely destroy the current system. On April 19, 1775, Paul Revere ... On September 3, 1783, Great Britain and the United ...

This led to the American ... 1775: Peter Salem, a black Patriot, fights at Lexington and Concord. 1780: Elizabeth Freeman wins her suit for emancipation under the new state constitution. 1783 ...

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

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington.” He helped to create the George Washington Book Prize, ...

just weeks before the American Revolution. The liberty, of course, largely was for white, landowning men, not the people Henry and other founders enslaved. He was demanding a specific kind of ...