While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

The war for American independence had its first martyr. Many years later, when the Bunker Hill Monument was dedicated in 1843, John Quincy Adams refused to attend .

Who is traditionally considered the first casualty of the American Revolution — and is also the subject of Mitch Kachun’s 2017 book titled “First Martyr of Liberty”?

On one night in Westminster, 250 years ago, violence broke out at a protest, resulting in the American Revolution’s first two deaths.

First, he said there is the imperative to acknowledge the contributions of Black people to the American Revolution. “So, had we erased Crispus Attucks in such a way that his name wasn’t known, his ...

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Today marks 250 years since the first battles of the American Revolution. And to commemorate that day, let's revisit a story we originally aired back in 2019.