While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great ...

"The American Revolution" from Ken Burns will debut on PBS Sunday, November 16. It airs for six consecutive nights.

Patrick Mantle, an East Rockaway, N.Y., history buff, needs a few good men and women—and even children—to fill the ranks of the Huntington Militia. Mantle isn’t some radical firebrand.

Ten years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt ... they “put themselves into a state of war with the people.” Whenever that happens, Locke warned, “it is not to be wondered that ...

1 It Was An Incredibly Long War How drawn-out the Revolutionary War was also often falls by the wayside (it lasted just over seven years). We’d like to think it was a bunch of redcoats showing ...

Ken Burns' upcoming six-part series The American Revolution, which explores the country's founding and its eight-year War for Independence, has been lined up for a fall premiere on PBS.

Adams knew the American Revolution had to build up a new government ... The day ended in a British retreat to Boston. But the war would be long — John Adams had predicted it might span 10 ...