At mid-month, the royal governor of Massachusetts, a military man, planned to confiscate the gunpowder and weapons rumored to ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

Ted Widmer, a consulting editor for this special issue of Globe Ideas, is the author of “Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days ...

Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American ...

With the shot heard around the world and launching the American Revolution fired in Massachusetts, this April will mark a major milestone for the Commonwealth. To honor the occasion, reenactors in ...