Saturday marks the 250th anniversary of the first day of the 3,059-day war that birthed the modern world. Commemorating the April 19, 1775, skirmishes at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge begins a ...

In response to this 18th-century vandalism/terrorism/coercion, the British government introduced a series of punitive measures under the Coercive Acts including dissolving the colonial assembly, ...

Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

The birthday of former President Thomas Jefferson passed last week and though he was one of our significant Founding Fathers and he definitely made his mark as president, there were things about ...

Saturday is 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. Fort Stanwix, in Rome, stands as a reminder of their ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...

He also suspended the state governor and dissolved the state’s House of Assembly. This declaration has led to debates in Nigeria about the legality of the decision. Public law scholar Abiodun ...

Bangladesh's Independence Day, also called National Day, commemorates the country's declaration of independence from Pakistan on this date in 1971. India, under then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ...

Chad has condemned a senior Sudanese general's threat to target its airports, calling it a "declaration of war". Its foreign ministry said it would respond according to international law if a ...

It translates to a major disaster declaration every four days. Researchers also found that 41% of the US population lived in a county where a major disaster or emergency was declared — about 137 ...

But I think it’s important that people understand the original context ... that “man is born with certain inalienable rights,” an idea echoed in the Declaration of Independence. In 1765, Henry won a ...