Ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, historians are remembering an incident involving gunpowder in Williamsburg that helped ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

As a culinary historian focusing on the colonial period of American history ... of evidence left behind by the men of business of the time. They left actual accounts and receipts of their ...

The American Village in Montevallo hosted a re-enactment of the Battle at Concord Bridge on its 250th anniversary April 19. The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, is a significant site where ...

Bonilla is a contributing Opinion writer who covers race, history, pop culture and the American ... At that time, I wondered if Puerto Rico was entering its own special period, like Cuba’s ...

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Last month, the Richmond museum opened its exhibition, “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” with an array ...

Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...

A seismic shift in Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. policy for handling a failing national or regional bank — foremost ...

An Imperial History. Antidote to apologias for the US intelligence agency, a periodization from the Truman Doctrine to the ‘war on terror’.

British Regulars fire on New England colonial militia ... anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and start of the American Revolution, Saturday in Lexington, Mass. Thousands, some dressed in period ...

The battles, which emerged from a gathering revolutionary crisis, predicted the outcome of the war: the victory of the ...