How to make sense of America’s turbulent times? In my role as historian, I tried on period costumes: togas for the death of ...

The 250th birthday is referred to as the semiquincentennial or bisesquicentennial. As these names are a challenge to say, ...

Paul Revere embarked upon his famous midnight ride on April 18, 1775, dashing from Boston toward Lexington and Concord to ...

In the pantheon of New England-born patriots, no two men stood higher than Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. And in the New ...

Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago, on April 19, 1775, British troops faced off against colonial militias in the Massachusetts ...

The route of Paul Revere’s midnight ride from Boston to Lexington 250 years ago looks much different today. For starters, ...

Massachusetts history runs deep. As one of the first 13 states, Massachusetts has no shortage of historical landmarks from ...

Everyone has some knowledge of “the midnight ride of Paul Revere,” the Revolutionary War’s equivalent of a Signal chat. But as the 250th anniversary of Revere’s ...

As the 250th anniversary of the adoption of our Declaration of Independence draws near, on July 4,2026, many will call to mind the famous names of some of the great signers of our Declaration of ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.