William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the ...

New England colonial militia stand in line while facing the British Regulars during a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and the start of the American ...

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

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." ...

Regent Debbie Nisonger places flowers near the headstone of where William Townsend is buried to recognize the solider as a ...

For this July 4th, we asked five South Carolinians "250 years later, is the Spirit of the American Revolution still alive?" ...

Discover the important facts about the American Revolution, including key American Revolutionary War events from 1775 to 1783, ... a local militia near Lexington.

Parliament’s Stamp Act tax of the mid-1760s ignited the Anglo-American conflict. Yet, as historians broadly agree, it was ...