On Dec. 16, 1773, American colonists, angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Co., into the Boston harbor.

When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

The route of Paul Revere’s midnight ride from Boston to Lexington 250 years ago looks much different today. For starters, ...

When we think of April, we tend to think of spring, flowers, open air markets and fairs. We do not think of revolution. But it was exactly 250 years ago, ...

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor Emerita of Japanese History at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on modern Japanese and East Asian history, particularly issues of historical ...

Harvard Alan Garber refused demands made by the Trump admin, which said it will freeze more than $2 billion in grants in ...

The respected silversmith and his fellow messengers played a key role in the colonists’ first victory of the Revolutionary ...

America’s illegitimates have not only come of age, they are gung-ho under Trump: thinking their home-brewed chaos is some new ...

Time and again in our nation, we have been able to find the best path ahead in part by looking at what did not work well in ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

This is Meredith Goldstein’s Love Letters newsletter for April 15th. Each week, Meredith shares tales of human connection, ...