Woods off the A249 hide the remains of a long‑demolished Kent house once linked to the American War of Independence. The Rose Hill estate, later renamed the Grove, drew the attention of local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

President Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of U.S. allies tap into a longstanding vein of doubt in American political thinking about the value of alliances. President George Washington famously ...

In 1775, the 13 American colonies broke away from Britain to establish a new nation on the ideals of 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' It would be a violent start, with eight years of war ...

EXETER — The American Independence Museum will honor the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War at its 35th annual American Independence Festival on Saturday, July 12.

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...

An Ulster connection to the American Declaration of Independence has been commemorated in a new stamp. John Dunlap, who was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, in 1747, printed the first broadside copies ...

Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” may have persuaded the American colonists of the need for independence, but it is one thing to favor independence and quite another to pick up arms to obtain it. We tend ...