Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, reenact the start of the American Revolution every year, but this year's festivities ...

Visiting Boston can be like flipping through the pages of a U.S. history book, with its superbly maintained colonial ...

Cautery, Lucía Litjmaer’s superb debut, follows two women in separate centuries through break-ups, tricky marriages and visions of ‘The End’ ...

The American semiquincentennial begins now, marking the 250th anniversary of this country’s founding. Like the bicentennial ...

A collection of indelible photographs, maps and ‘intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the ...

All bungalows have their roots in colonial Bengal. See how they spread, how the style evolved. Tour the 21st-century inheritors of this tradition.

See where New Jersey stood 250 years ago as the Battles of Lexington and Concord kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

From the elegant streets of Edinburgh to the lesser-known Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, this is our review of every Unesco ...

Inside the steeple of Old North Church and among the Southern Colonies, less familiar stories of the events from 250 years ...

In “Shots Heard Round the World,” John Ferling argues that substantial – and secret – aid from France helped the colonists ...

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

A major milestone for the Brick Chapel – a landmark of faith that symbolizes Maryland’s status as a birthplace of religious ...