A plaque honoring African American Revolutionary War soldier Thomas Campbell will be dedicated Nov. 8 at Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners.

On Nov. 7, 1775, in the face of growing unrest in the colony, the royal governor of Virginia issued a proclamation offering ...

Leslie M. Harris, a professor of history at Northwestern University, is the author of several books about slavery in America. Mention the topic of Black people in the Revolutionary era, and many ...

“Revolutionary America 1775-1783,” reads the blue and gold marker. “Cudjo Banquante, early black business owner granted ...

In the common room of a modest, brown house in Concord, Massachusetts, lies the story of Caesar Robbins. He was born enslaved in 1745 in nearby Chelmsford, Massachusetts. And when the Revolutionary ...

Massachusetts is marking the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago with several events this weekend. One Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the war do ...

A parcel of land on an existing Revolutionary War battlefield in Eutawville is being developed into a park to be named after a Revolutionary War soldier and freed African American slave Jim Capers.

The South Carolina 250 Commission set up fabulous exhibits in the Ruff Building at the South Carolina State Fair depicting ...

Introduction: American Revolutions / Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky. -- Part I. Cultures and Crises. Britain's American Problem: The International Perspective / P. J. Marshall ; The Unsettled ...

Next July marks 250 years since a handful of upstart American colonies declared independence from Britain. A war was fought, as we all know, and almost immediately after it was over, Richard Bell ...