Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston 250 years ago this month.
What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.
Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.
This special issue looks at the dramatic and momentous events that occurred 250 years ago this month.
“Now the war has begun and no one knows when it will end,” said one minuteman after the fight.
The discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians
It's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.
A novelist who has just spent several years studying Eleanor Roosevelt, Lucy Rutherfurd, and Missy LeHand tells a moving story of love: public and private, given and withheld.
First of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945
Even though he had no military training, Lincoln quickly rose to become one of America’s most talented commanders.
In recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?