Samuel Adams has a new home in Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s ceremonial office. A portrait of Adams, a Founding Father of the United States and Massachusetts’ fourth governor, had for years lived ...

The 29th Masonic District in Westfield held a commemoration to honor Revolutionary Patriots, featuring a replica cannon and a reenactment of letters between Henry and Lucy Knox.

Before civilian statutes and corporate hotlines, two young Rhode Island naval officers in 1777 risked career and liberty to expose war-time misconduct. They became America’s first whistle-blowers, and ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution unfolds across six nights, tracing how Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley helped turn ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.

During the American Revolution, Patriot leaders such as George Washington and others promised some enslaved men liberty if they fought for independence, though the British offer of emancipation in ...