Archaeologists recently uncovered evidence pointing toward the fate of the Roanoke Colony, whose residents disappeared between 1587 and 1590 in North Carolina.

Though British commander in chief Gage had hoped to surprise the colonists, Revere’s midnight ride thwarted these plans, warning locals of the soldiers’ impending arrival. The American ...

As June begins, Rhode Island is preparing to celebrate the anniversary of one of its most important revolutionary events - ...

July 1: Cherokee attack the southern frontier. July 4: Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. It’s worth noting that two other branches of the military will turn 250 this year as well. The ...

UNTIL the decade before the last world war, British policy in the colonies had aimed chiefly at the establishment of order, the extension of the rule of law, the control of abuses, the creation of ...

Dispute between a naval lieutenant and a future Revolutionary War hero may have sparked the historic burning of a British warship in Warwick in 1772.

Did 17th-century immigrants to the 13 colonies have modern British accents? First, we need to figure out what a “British accent” is. Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically ...

In 1860, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow immortalized the role of Paul Revere, who, with others, alerted the militias and colonists that British troops had departed for Lexington and Concord ...

Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking. The French, Spanish, and Portuguese competed with the British for colonies under the belief that no great nation could exist and be self ...