After the “shot heard round the world” started the Revolutionary War, Williamsburg found itself on the threshold of its own “first shot” and only the coolest heads and calmest spirits ...

With Saturday’s anniversary, the United States is looking back to its war of independence and asking where its legacy stands ...

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include: -- Statesman Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of ...

Boston colonial leaders learned that British Gen. Thomas Gage ordered 1,500 Redcoats to march to Lexington to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams ...

This remarkable memoir, and history of India after Independence, by one of India’s most distinguished public intellectuals, ...