By November 14, 1775, when John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, issued his proclamation, his plan to offer freedom to slaves who would leave their patriot masters and join ...

A: In many ways, Dunmore's Proclamation was a turning point in relations with plantation colonies of the South. It was a turning point, I think, between enslaved people and their owners ...

Everyone knows how the redcoats clashed with patriots at Lexington and Concord in April 1775, sparking the American Revolution. Yet often forgotten is an incident that took place two days later and ...

Smithsonian writer Andrew Lawler about these lesser-known histories.A transcript is below. To subscribe to “There’s More to That,” and to listen to past episodes about a baseball field resurrected in ...