Once Americans declared that all people possess natural rights and that legitimate government rests on consent, women would inevitably — and rightly — claim those principles as their own.

Virginia eventually seized and sold off an estimated 53,000 acres, plus personal property, which in some cases included enslaved Africans.

The American Revolution succeeded in independence from Britain but for Native people, the war resulted in displacement from their homelands and an expansion of encroachment.

British soldiers met at Lydia Darragh's house in Philadelphia, presenting the perfect opportunity for the Quaker woman to ...

Inoculation effectively eliminated smallpox as a threat to American troops, ending outbreaks that had removed large numbers of soldiers from service.

Between 1700 and 1775 over 200,000 Irish men and women arrived in the American colonies. Having fled British oppression, ...

The Patriots catch wind of a secret British plan to move troops from Boston into Concord and they dispatch William Dawes and Paul Revere to warn other Patriots that the British are coming. The British ...

The Brunswick Town Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution will dedicate a historic marker later ...

The Valentine opens “Dissent! Liberty & Loyalty in Early Richmond,” a new exhibition about the differing ideals and contradictions of Virginians around the American Revolution.

Faces Media and the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History present a virtual lecture series spotlighting 250 years of Jewish life in the United States, from Colonial times to the present.

Part of Delaware's contribution to the American Revolution is told through the America's Tapestry project. Recently, some ...

During the American Revolutionary War, the Sons of Liberty often convened under the nation’s original Liberty Tree in Boston ...