On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

Maria Brown, head of the committee, hopes for every house to display two lights in a window or outside their dwelling the ...

According to a community announcement, "1775, The Revolution Begins" will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 348 Washington St., Norwich. The day starts with the “Shot heard around the world” followed by a ...

It’s not buying American flag boxer briefs. It’s following up words with actions.

I walked by every single elected official’s office to document exactly which of them fly Christian nationalist flags.

Parliament passed the Stamp Act, the first internal tax on the American colonies, and thus began a decade of missteps by the ...

At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

It was much more than a war. The shot that launched the American Revolution was “heard ’round the world,” not because of ...

the flag is never coming down.” (Video Credit: WITN) For years, Lebanese-American businessman Marcus Lemonis has been raising enormous versions of the stars and stripes over his Camping World RV ...

Jonathan Israel’s latest book claims to be ‘an overview of the revolutionary process in the Western and colonial worlds down to the 1850s viewed from the particular perspective of the American ...