Lord North was ill-suited to being a wartime prime minister but it took parliament seven years to replace him by which time ...

Rick Atkinson’s new Revolutionary War history is an unblinking portrait of wonderful nation’s birthing.

As I sat at my desk last weekend, significant events of Aprils past came to mind. “On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five,” Longfellow wrote, “Hardly a man is now alive/ Who remembers that famous ...

The final volume of his Revolution Trilogy will perhaps coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Oct. 19, 1781, world-turned-upside-down British surrender at Yorktown. This year’s volume ...

The final volume of his Revolution Trilogy will perhaps coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Oct. 19, 1781, world-turned-upside-down British surrender at Yorktown. This year’s volume ...

George Washington fired the first cannon at Yorktown. (Courtesy of GBH/NOVA ... weeks of constant cannon fire to force Cornwallis' surrender behind these wooden-wicker earthworks.