A new book explores how painters, sculptors and writers, especially women and people of color, used their craft to advocate ...

A decade before America’s original No Kings movement, Ben Franklin stood in London before the House of Commons and — while ...

One year before the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress established the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, to fight the British during the American Revolutionary War.

One year before the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress established the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, to fight the British during the American Revolutionary War. After the ...

This expedition, relatively small, is significant. Right away, Americans are forced to work together.” The British briefly recaptured the fort in 1777, but abandoned it soon after.

Massachusetts was the site of various battles during the Revolutionary War, many of which will celebrate their 250th anniversary this year. Here's an overview of the key Revolutionary War battles ...

The greatest impact, however, was how colonials used it as propaganda and a rallying cry against British rule. "Samuel Adams always said, 'Putting your enemy in the wrong and keeping him in the ...

His lecture, “Revolutionary war graves in the First and Second Burial Grounds,” at the society’s Stevens Center, 800 Massachusetts Ave., on Tuesday was part of REV250, a celebration of the ...

The life story of William “Billy” Flora, a Black man and celebrated Revolutionary War hero, illustrates the paradoxes of America’s founding. Flora was born in Portsmouth in 1755 to Mary ...

You have that, as you said, ghastly skeleton. And I was struck by the fact that that could have been a propaganda poster from basically either side of that war because that message of, you know, ...