Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

Perhaps the least commented upon feature of the dystopian Trump banners adorning parts of Washington D.C. is the red, white, and blue number—“250”—emblazoned just beneath the president’s ...

HARRISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - April 19, 1775. On this day, “the shot heard ‘round the world” initiated the American Revolutionary War. “We’re told today that nobody knows who fired the first shot,” ...

NPR's history podcast Throughline speaks with Ken Burns about his latest documentary, The American Revolution.

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The Adirondacks played a pivotal role in the American Revolution. Explore our America250 coverage of the shipwrecks, forts, ...

Any discussion of films and TV series about the American Revolution has to start with a caveat. Historical movies have been around for as long as movies themselves, but films and TV series about the ...

Peter Salem was a formerly enslaved man who was freed to fight in the American Revolutionary War. He is credited by many with fatally shooting British Major John Pitcairn during the Battle of Bunker ...

In 1775, the British were occupying Boston and the Patriots were low on weapons. General George Washington turned to Knox to do what seemed impossible: get more arms from Fort Ticonderoga in New York.

Nathanael Greene, a top general in the Revolutionary War, also ran a family iron foundry in Coventry, Rhode Island. The General Nathanael Greene Homestead, a privately owned national historic landmark ...

Myrtle Beach native Darley Newman of PBS travel show fame has a new book about the American Revolution that includes two ...