Friends of American Heritage gathered to celebrate 75 years of great writing and education about our nation's history.
Previously unknown, a map drawn by Lord Percy, the British commander at Lexington, sheds new light on the perilous retreat to Boston 250 years ago this month.
What began as a civil war within the British Empire continued until it became a wider conflict affecting peoples and countries across Europe and North America.
Overshadowed in memory by Lexington and Concord, the Massachusetts town of Menotomy saw the most violent and deadly fighting on April 19, 1775.
This special issue looks at the dramatic and momentous events that occurred 250 years ago this month.
It's one of the oldest folk ballads in our national songbook, but where did it come from? The answer is complex, multi-layered, American.
Badly disguised as Indians, a rowdy group of patriotic vandals kicked a revolution into motion.
The discoverer of the New World was responsible for the annihilation of the peaceful Arawak Indians
When John Adams was elected president, and Thomas Jefferson as vice president, each came to see the other as a traitor. Out of their enmity grew our modern political system.
An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul
In recent years many voices—both Native-American and white—have questioned whether Indians did in fact invent scalping. What is the evidence?