A museum in Georgia’s oldest city on Wednesday welcomed a truckload of treasures from the earliest period of U.S. history — ...

American Revolution history often gets packed into clean little stories. That makes it easy to remember, but not always ...

National Geographic’s Crash Course on the American Revolution is your six-part email series on how the 13 Colonies broke free from Great Britain and established the United States. From the escalating ...

Outraged by the Intolerable Acts, the Colonies decided to meet in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the first ...

Some of the fiercest battles took place in South Carolina, but its part in the fight for independence is often overlooked.

George Washington visited Rhode Island four times, and during one of those trips, he helped shape the United States into the ...

Long before the Declaration of Independence was signed, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain were already boiling ...

The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the ...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, Massachusetts' central role in sparking the American Revolution is ...

A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight – and gave Washington a chance to turn ...

Now on view at the New York Historical, "Revolutionary Women" spotlights figures with connections to the state, including a ...