The Garden State played a big part in the war, due to its location between the British base in New York City and the rebel ...

In 1775, George Washington sent Henry Knox, a Boston bookseller, to fetch 60 tons of artillery. We followed Knox’s route to ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. It began with the "Shot heard 'round the world" on April 19, 1775 in Lexington and it marked the end ...

The American Revolution has been portrayed in many ways—sacred myth, bloody struggle, ideological clash, chaotic birth. It's a story of farmers and philosophers, spies and soldiers, compromise and ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

A mobile history museum called the “Freedom Truck” is stopping in Maryland before heading to the National Mall this weekend.

The economic realities of the war start to settle in for both the Americans and the British. Securing resources for the American Revolution was top of mind for both sides. In the United States, ...

The American War of Independence is more associated with Boston and Philadelphia, but a tavern in Manhattan's Lower East Side ...

A Revolutionary War veteran will be honored during a public ceremony May 9 at Midway Presbyterian Church Cemetery in New Zion.

The Ohio History Connection is mapping the graves of Revolutionary War veterans buried in the state.