The Revolutionary War was about many things — self-governance being at the core — but a major driver was access to land. The British restricted colonists’ migration westward across the Appalachian ...

For many colonists, the American Revolution provided the opportunity to continue displacing Native Americans. This book provides an account of the role of Native Americans in the Revolution's outbreak ...

As the British Red Coats retreated through Lexington on April 19, 1775, after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, two men, ...

As Ken Burns’ The American Revolution examines how the founding of America turned the world upside down, this vignette from WCMU explores the role of Native Americans in what is now Michigan during ...

As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, two works offer valuable, fresh views of the American Revolution.

Just a few years before America declared independence from Great Britain, pioneers were fighting for what would later become ...

The Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans stood on the banks of the Hudson River in the autumn of 1777, armed with flintlock muskets and a fierce loyalty to a cause that wasn’t theirs. The tribe, whose ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...