The nine colleges that existed in the original 13 colonies when the Revolutionary War broke out each shaped the new nation’s political culture in a distinct way, says J. David Hoeveler, professor of ...

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of ...

The story of firearms in the Revolutionary War is a complex one, but a new exhibit at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at Virginia's Colonial Williamsburg seeks to showcase the vast array of ...

WILLIAMSBURG — Archaeologists at Colonial Williamsburg have unearthed remains of Revolutionary War barracks, including items believed to have used by military officers, on a site near the foundation’s ...

At the beginning of the 1700s, newspapers were a fairly new concept in the American colonies. But by the end of the century, they had truly become the mass media of the day, with growing influence in ...

Passed by the British Parliament in March 1765, the Stamp Act aimed to raise revenue directly from the American colonies. It required colonists to pay a tax on virtually all printed materials. This ...