NEW YORK (AP) — The American Revolution began 250 years ago, in a blast of gunshot and a trail of colonial spin. NEW YORK (AP ...

KK: I also think there can often be this origin-story idea that America did it mostly alone in the Revolutionary War. But your book starts with Benjamin Franklin asking for support from the French.

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Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966, the Conference House is vital in narrating an essential chapter of American history.

At the end of the War of Independence ... Stacy Schiff, the author of “The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams,” is at work on a book about Benjamin Franklin.

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A routine discussion among top US officials on a messaging app which also had the editor-in-chief of a leading American magazine resulted in one of the worst intelligence leaks in recent history.

It would also be used during the Revolutionary War, and even by both sides during the Civil War. Benjamin Franklin wrote in his autobiography that “the hard-to-be-governed passion of my youth ...