Independence Day from the get-go has been a rowdy holiday with ringing bells, gunfire, cannon fire, fireworks, feasting, speeches and toasts. Over...
The Spirit of 76 reappeared again and again after the American Revolution as an idea, as a symbol and as a propaganda...
Joseph Warren, say some today, would have been the first president of the United States had he not been killed at the Battle...
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
The gravesites of such revolutionary heroes as Paul Revere and John Adams are well known and well marked, but where are the...