George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...

The king of England's "Red Coat" British soldiers engaged with a motley focused group of providential farmers, shopkeepers ...

George Washington patented 10,900 acres along the Kanawha River in what is now Mason County, West Virginia. What started off ...

What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

Maria Brown, head of the committee, hopes for every house to display two lights in a window or outside their dwelling the ...

Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first internal tax on the American colonies, and thus began a decade of missteps by the ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

The City of Chelsea, in partnership with the Governor Bellingham Cary House Museum, is thrilled to announce a series of public Open Houses and exciting historical programming this spring as part of ...

It was much more than a war. The shot that launched the American Revolution was “heard ’round the world,” not because of ...

This spring will mark the Semiquincentennial — the 250th anniversary — of the events of April 19, 1775. On that day, the ...