There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

It’s one of Abigail Adams’s most famous lines. Early in 1776 — not even 12 months after the battles of Lexington and Concord — she wrote to her husband, John, who was with the Continental Congress.

How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor ...

The fight for American independence needed more than colonial arms. Britain’s diplomatic isolation proved a powerful weapon ...