Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world ...

Still, for people living in the 13 colonies—free or enslaved—the American Revolution changed life much less fundamentally. David K. Allison, curator emeritus, National Museum of American ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... This led to the American Revolution, with its ethos of freedom and equality. The spirit of the age was ...

In the mid-1700s America, if you were a white man with rights, the economy probably felt pretty good. “Free colonists, who are living in the colonies ... of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.

The American Revolution began as a North American conflict between the newly formed United States and Great Britain over the question of whether the thirteen colonies could become an independent ...

Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American Revolution ... and richest of the Thirteen Colonies—to organize a militia.

In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on her American colonies that were met with ... set for the first battles of the American Revolution.