A book by an emeritus professor at Brown argues that the revolution was one of the greatest the world has known and "affected the course of subsequent history.” ...

Thanks to a recent blizzard of executive orders and late-night congressional maneuvers, the nation’s public lands have become ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

Buffalo soldiers under the direction of John "Blackjack" Pershing were tasked with chasing down Mexican revolutionary Pancho ...

One of the best known battles of the American Revolution may have been in Lexington, Mass. But a historic house about 100 ...

Sarah Hepola asks Ken Burns five questions ahead of his Dallas appearance at the Winspear Opera House on June 3 to preview ...

From the American Revolution to modern battles, take a look back at the full toll of U.S. deaths in war this Memorial Day.

spotlighting the grim period between that celebratory moment and the departure of British forces in 1783. “The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution,” opening May 2026 and ...

While the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride and the Battle of Lexington and Concord are being remembered this month as the start of the American Revolution, at nearly the same ...

But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... members of the Lexington Minute Men reenactors group, have studied the period to understand what the mood was like among the colonists.

about the first book of his forthcoming trilogy about the American Revolution ... I think that comes through clearly from the period of the Revolution and the early republic.

signaling the start of the American Revolution. But very few have laid eyes on a letter written to Revere by his wife, Rachel, warning him not to return to Boston after his ride to Lexington ...