Revolutionary War

Quiz: The Founding Fathers

Nation & World - July 3, 2009

How much do you know about America's earliest leaders? more >>

British Might Meets Yankee Ingenuity

By Stephen Rountree - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

An invention paves the way for modern submarine warfare more >>

Why the Patriots Really Fought

By Justin Ewers - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Many soldiers were not necessarily driven by the cause of liberty more >>

How George Washington's Savvy Won the Day

By Jay Tolson - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Despite his share of errors, the commander in chief prevailed as a strategist and a politician. more >>

The Rich Legacy of a Forgotten Founder

By Paul Lockhart - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Baron de Steuben may have been a fraud but he knew how to wage war. more >>

In Paris, Taking the Salons by Storm

By Diane Cole - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

How the canny Ben Franklin talked the French into a crucial alliance. more >>

The Unlikely Role of Patriot Pirates

By Robert H. Patton - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Privateers plundered British ships and made fortunes, to boot. more >>

Rewriting the Legend of Paul Revere

By Justin Ewers - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Every schoolchild knows the story, but most of it is wrong more >>

Benedict Arnold: A Traitor, but Once a Patriot

By Linda L. Creighton - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

The one-time war hero chose a path of betrayal after becoming disillusioned with the cause. more >>

‘Town Destroyer’ Versus the Iroquois Indians

By Johannah Cornblatt - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Forty Indian villages—and a powerful indigenous nation—were razed on the orders of George Washington more >>

In a Massacre, the Seeds of a Civil War

By Linda L. Creighton - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

Americans slaughtered their countrymen in the bloody Battle of Waxhaws in the woods of South Carolina more >>

For Blacks, There Was No Clear Choice

By Elisabeth Goodridge - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

African-Americans ended up on both sides of the war, though they shared the goal of evading slavery. more >>

Allied With France, the Enemy of Our Enemy

By Alex Kingsbury - Nation & World - June 27, 2008

America needed the French to defeat the Brits, but it was Paris that lost in the end more >>