The American Revolution wasn’t a moment in time so much as a gradual drip, drip, drip, a series of events, grievances, provocations and confrontations that unspooled over a period of several years ...

. . . And therein lies a debate that needs airing as America approaches its 250th birthday.

“A glimmer, a gleam, the hurry of hoofs: a sturdy, square-jawed man speeds through the night, with an urgent message, on a borrowed horse. His topcoat flaps behind him. A bright moon hangs overhead,” ...

Maybe it's the company I keep. Over the past few weeks, when I've told friends and neighbors that I've been reading a superb new biography of Samuel Adams, almost everyone has responded by saying ...

"The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams" by Stacy Schiff. Published by Little, Brown & Co. Very little? You’re not alone. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff, a native of Adams and author of the newly ...

Stacy Schiff has written biographies of some of history’s most fascinating figures, from Cleopatra to the witches of Salem. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian is turning to an American ...