At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

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 ...

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic ...

Trump is not the first American leader to dream of northern expansion. History suggests these designs reveal simmering ...

The American Revolution was brought to life for fifth-grade students at Village Elementary School who took a historic field ...

Across the nation, celebrations have already begun for America’s 250th birthday, which will be marked on July 4, 2026, ...

All over the country, cities and towns are going all out for next year’s semiquincentennial party. Here are our 9 picks for ...

A new exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) explores the Commonwealth’s important role in the American Revolution ... as he expressed why the colonies were fighting ...

This spring, all eyes will be on Lexington and Concord to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War. But six local historical organizations—including the Wellesley ...