This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary ... 1770, emotions bubbled over. Boston locals and English troops got into a confrontation, leading to the Boston ...

This is “The Bloody Massacre,” Paul Revere’s famous depiction of the Boston Massacre in 1770. It was an image that helped ... down a lot of the ideas that became the basis for the American Revolution.

On April 19, 1775, 250 years ago today, the first battles of the American Revolution ... the occupation of Boston in 1768; the Boston Massacre of 1770; the Tea Act of 1773; and the Coercive ...

But the battles that put the British on the back foot early on in the American Revolution took place ... the site of the Boston Massacre, where five colonists were shot by Redcoats in an early ...

“It’s not that I think he is definitely the man who fired first,” states historian and author J.L. Bell, who writes the daily blog Boston 1775 about the American Revolution. “But if I ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19 to participate in the ceremonies marking the 250th anniversary of the battles coined the 'shot heard round ...

The filmmaker talks to editorial page editor James Dao about how his newest project is the most important one he’ll ever make ...

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired upon a gathering of colonists — the Boston Massacre — who ... Virginia’s first battle of the American Revolution came on Dec. 9, 1775, with the ...

Through his work, Revere made connections with Boston’s elite — relationships that would later serve him well during the American Revolution ... on March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired ...

Warren became increasingly involved in revolutionary politics in the time leading up to the Boston Massacre in 1770, when British troops fired into a crowd of civilians, killing five, Blecker said.