Joseph J. Ellis is the author, most recently, of “The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents.” ...

Picture that it’s the summer of 1775 and word from Boston is that citizens of the Bay Colony are needed to resist the British Regulars and their reign. What would you ...

The colonial British customs schooner HMS Gaspee might have quietly faded from history had its officers not tangled with Coventry merchant Nathanael Greene, who would become the second-in-command of ...