The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

Daniel Morgan leads the British into a trap, securing a crucial victory for the Patriots. Nathanael Greene is dispatched to the South to replace the disgraced Horatio Gates. Despite being outnumbered, ...

Two and a half centuries ago, a small band of minutemen answered the call of freedom in the legendary Battles of Lexington and Concord, an epic tale of American strength and the first major armed ...

The British assault Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill near Boston in the bloodiest battle of the war. The British plan to capture Breed's Hill and Bunker Hill on the Charlestown peninsula overlooking ...

According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

The 250th anniversary of an early Revolutionary battle brings crowds to the Ninety Six National Historic Site.

BLACKSBURG, S.C. (WBTV) - “We the people.” Those are the stirring words that begin the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution is one of the two most important documents in the history of ...

Directed by Ken Burns with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” takes away the trimmings of nostalgia ...

By Vince Bzdek What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how ...

The documentary is thorough, engaging and — as is customary for Burns — tells the story through a first-rate cast of ...