Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolutionary War with the "shot heard 'round the world" on Lexington Green in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775. The conflict ...

While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a ...

“But what Parliament did to fund the standing army ... And that economic story of the American Revolution is probably pretty familiar. Sign up for the Marketplace newsletter to get the day ...

American colonists chose to stand against tyranny. When British troops marched into the Massachusetts countryside to seize weapons and supplies, they met armed resistance from colonists who refused to ...

Self-government remains a fundamental American principle that admits no qualification or compromise. A commitment to ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

Something of a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, it called for greater American autonomy and limits on Parliament's power over the colonies. The first session of the Second Continental ...

JEREMY CORBYN led a revolution in Parliament yesterday by abandoning Punch and Judy politics to put the public’s questions to the Prime Minister. Labour’s new leader kept his promise of a “new kind of ...