Before the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, exhibitions and events in many states offer a ...

Historians around the state are revisiting the nation's origin story with fresh eyes, centering on communities that have ...

“In America the law is king,” wrote Paine. “For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ...

An estimated 600 people gathered on the Falmouth Green Saturday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the start of the ...

While establishment historians claim that the British government had no intentions of depriving American colonists of their liberties, actual history tells a ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

Tens of thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how ...

In new book 'A Promised Land,' history professor Adam Jortner looks at the role of Jews - then just 0.1% of the population - ...