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

The festival includes Revolutionary-era military encampments, musters, and re-enactments, as well as demonstrations of ...

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

Historians have debated whether the New Jersey-born wife of a British general was the one who leaked his orders and set the militia into action 250 years ago.

The most sensational rumor going back more than a century, is that Margaret Kemble Gage, the wife of the British general, helped tip off the American Revolution.

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." ...

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

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

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

The community gathered at the Wyoming Memorial on Friday to mark the 247th anniversary of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming.

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

Polk County honors Samuel Quinton, a Revolutionary War vet who spent his final years in the area, with a new memorial.