In 1776 the task of doing so fell to two brothers, Richard and William Howe. They had a dual mandate: to crush the rebels and ...

Ordinary colonists, the farmers, churchgoers, local leaders, pushed back against injustice by the British Crown.

On Aug. 21, 1789, just a month after the storming of the Bastille that launched the French Revolution, France’s new governing ...

On June 15, 1776, Delaware declared independence from both Great Britain and Pennsylvania at the New Castle Court House. The state is known as "The First State" for being the first to ratify the U.S.

Seasonal wardens and netted fences are helping protect the rare ground-nesting birds that arrive each spring on the UK’s shores ...

It’s where the British perfected their system of enslaved labor, George Washington visited and colonialism’s legacy can still ...

Those questions do not have clean answers. But the instinct underlying the Fourth Amendment remains surprisingly stable ...

Without Spanish support, the bid for Independence might have failed, Felipe Fernández-Armesto says, and deep Latin ties ...

The fact remains that the VOC did not introduce debt bondage or human trafficking to the Coromandel Coast. It expanded and ...

The first fireworks for American independence were launched on May 16, 1776, in Williamsburg, Virginia, weeks before the ...