As we mark the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, it’s worth asking a simple but powerful question: What were they fighting for?

Crispus Attucks is recognized as the first colonial casualty of the Revolutionary War, even though his death and that of a ...

Renowned American actor Kurt Russell spent part of his July 4th visiting the Arlington house where his eighth ...

Mindful of next year’s 250th anniversary of American independence, organizers called the movement “No Kings.” Had the same ...

In 1775, life went on normally for most though a revolution was coming. Columnist joe Holley says Americans today have a duty ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

The Declaration of Independence is celebrated because it was an inflection point where the Continental Congress decided that ...

Thousands of merchants and other businessmen from Massachusetts down to Georgia were quite wary of what belligerence to England might do to their livelihoods – and thus as of early the following year, ...

The exhibit highlights hidden Kentucky stories, including a woman who played a key role in air conditioning invention and a ...

T he Battle of Bunker Hill, 250 years ago this week, dropped the other shoe on the Thirteen Colonies’ march toward independence. In that spring of 1775, the first shots were fired with some ...

This past April I stood on the Green in Lexington on Patriots’ Day, which marked the 250th anniversary of “the shot heard round the world” when eight ordinary Americans, mostly farmers, died.