The American Revolution” is the a new six-part documentary series by Ken Burns that chronicles the Revolutionary War.

Even though 250 years have elapsed since the fateful first shots of the American Revolution—fired on April 19, 1775—there are still pieces of evidence remaining from the day’s fighting.

Richard Higgins, a former Globe reporter, is author of “Thoreau’s God” and “Thoreau and the Language of Trees.” On April 19, Concord and the nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Fight at ...

This excerpt from the introduction to The Satoshi Papers traces how the consolidation of money, law, and state power in ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

Two lanterns lit the steeple of a Boston church in 1775, a rallying cry that gave us a new nation. On April 18, Arizona will light that fire again.

Lectures focus on Bergen County's role in the founding of the United States as part of the festivities commemorating the ...

Lectures focus on Bergen County's role in the founding of the United States as part of the festivities commemorating the ...

American Revolution provided world of Enlightenment chance to see if philosophy, politics game they had been engaged in could ...

He wrote influential books exploring the dramatic changes wrought by independence, bringing in overlooked perspectives — what ...

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats ...