What distinguished America’s Revolutionary War heroes was the purpose for which their actions were carried out -- the right to live free.

LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago, with the ...

“No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The men who engineered the revolt were largely members of the colonial ruling class.” — Howard Zinn The American ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms ...

ORWIGSBURG — Eric Troutman, a Revolutionary War historian, will reveal the “strong influence” of Pennsylvania Germans during the American war for independence at 7 p.m. June 19 at the Orwigsburg ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new ...

Historian Rick Atkinson stated in a recent talk that Americans tend to view the American Revolution through a kind of rosy haze. In Fate of the Day: The American War for Independence, Atkinson lays ...

Ichabod Beckwith was a 24-year-old patriot who heard the call for revolution in 1775 and set off with a company of battle-ready Minutemen on a march toward Lexington. That’s where Beckwith’s record as ...

British Regulars fire on New England colonial militia, also known as a Minutemen, during a reenactment celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and start of the American ...