The famous warning from Paul Revere's midnight ride is mostly a myth. Here's what he actually said on the night the American ...

The Lexington Battle Green is located 11 miles outside Boston, Massachusetts, in the center of the more than 300-year-old town. Its historical significance comes from the men who died at the hands of ...

“Paul Revere went back to the Hancock-Clarke House to urge Hancock and Adams to head to a ‘safe house,’” McDonough said. “They first went to a friend’s house in the area, where the Burlington Mall is ...

A visit during Patriots' Day in April is a bucket-list item for many history buffs.

At dawn on April 19, 1775, British regulars faced the Lexington militia on the town common, and moments later the Revolutionary War was underway. The problem is, the most famous “first shot” in ...

Israel Bissell in 1775 rode to Philadelphia from Watertown, Massachusetts, to put out the news that the Revolutionary War had started. Sybil Ludington, 16, is said to have ridden one night in 1777, ...

Sybil Ludington's Revolutionary War ride could be either entirely true, or the stuff of myth, depending on who you ask.

The expedition brought roughly 60 tons of guns and cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, and helped turn the tide of the ...

He might have had the largest signature of any signer of the Declaration of Independence, but many people don’t know much about John Hancock. Journalist and scholar Willard Sterne Randall has solved ...

Following the December raid on Fort William and Mary in 1774, New Hampshire’s Royal Governor, John Wentworth, became increasingly concerned about political protests. He grew more anxious after shots ...

More than a decade before he became the country's first president, George Washington was leading a critical campaign in the ...

Georgia Day marks the 1733 founding of the last of the original 13 British colonies. In the American Revolutionary War, ...