This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary War in Massachusetts. Here's how it started.

George III was not an absolutist monarch, to use the language of the day for a power-hungry ruler. The English had struggled in the previous century over the extent of the king’s power. After ...

Carla Gardina Pestana, University of California, Los Angeles (THE CONVERSATION) George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly.