But with the American Revolution, which began 250 years ago ... and a major financier of the patriot cause. Adams had helped plan the Boston Tea Party. At about 11:30 p.m. that evening, Paul ...

But J. L. Bell, a scholar who specializes in the start of the American Revolution and authored “The Road to Concord: How Four Stolen Cannon Ignited the Revolutionary War,” also gives a thumbs ...

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Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year. This makes it a big year for one ...

Massachusetts is marking the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago with several events this weekend. One Concord man is making sure that the contributions of people of color during the ...

As the nation marks 250 years since the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which ignited the American Revolution, one mystery refuses to die. It’s been called "the shot heard ’round the world ...

The world had shifted. Down with tyranny. Down with kings. The war for American independence had begun. More than two centuries later, a girl named Sabrina was using the historical hip-hop of Lin- ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, passed away at the age of 88 on April 21 after a prolonged battle with respiratory illnesses and kidney failure. The head of the Catholic Church ...