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“Will you let them burn the town down?” Asked Joseph Hosmer, a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, and member of the militia and minutemen gathered...

Tens of thousands of years before the American Revolution, an animal died in what is now Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Rather than being left out...

Few regiments in the Continental Army have been given such attention as that of the 14th Continental Regiment, a short-lived band of brothers that...

While the Continental Army’s encampment at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778 is one of the most well-remembered events in American history...

By: Adam E. Zielinski The British strategy for winning the war at the outset of the rebellion in 1775 had struggled to gain coherence. Starting with...

Despite the capitulation of Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British army to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown in October 1781, hostilities between Great...

If the American Revolution created the modern idea of self-governing societies, it surely produced leaders who could enact those principles for others...

The American strategy was about obtaining legitimacy on an international level. While the Declaration of Independence was written to spell out...

While there have been many pivotal moments in American history, perhaps no stretch of days comes close to signifying how perilous the situation was...

African Americans were not invisible during the American Revolution — learn more about their service.

1. The Enlightenment shaped the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution The greatest influence over the thoughts, passions, and...

The African slave trade was the largest forced migration in human history. Learn more about the economic side of this heinous institution that...