Lucy Worsley's PBS series highlights the emotional fallout of the conflict, with a focus on the British perspective ...

Why were the British Caribbean colonies left out of the Revolution? Slavery explains it. We’ve been learning about the 13 colonies all our lives, so why did no one think to mention the British ...

American Colonial Revival homes, with their symmetry, stability and lines as old as our nation itself, evoke a sense of history, tradition and homeyness — sort of like the comfort food of American ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago Saturday, an angry mob of American colonists swarmed three ships moored at the docks in Boston, seized 45 tons of tea and tossed it into the harbor. The popular version ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Colonial home is an architectural style that can be found in neighborhoods all across the United States. With a median ...

Tensions had been building between the American colonists and the British government for more than a decade before the “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Interpreter, Harold Caldwell discusses the life of enslaved people living in Colonial America. This lesson uses a video clip from Colonial ...

Early American currency wasn’t always American. Up until 1857, foreign coins were accepted as legal tender because there weren’t enough domestic coins to go around. Another result of the shortage: To ...