The Battle of Brandywine was an example of how the Revolutionary Way was a civil war. About 500 colonists fought at Brandywine on the side of the British as loyalists, firing at their neighbors and ...
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In January 1776, Virginia’s Port City of Norfolk Was Set Ablaze, Galvanizing the Revolution. But Who Really Lit the Match?
Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence. But the ...
The American Revolution (1775–1783) was a historic struggle that led to the birth of the United States of America. It began ...
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- This weekend, "Occupied Philadelphia" brought history to life with the sights and sounds of 1777. Held annually each fall, it is the Museum of the American ...
The American Revolution happened in Eastern North Carolina, although some history books seem to forget it. For example, "This Fierce People," an otherwise excellent study by David Pell Crawford on the ...
NMAI copy v.4 (39088014920409) from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Contents Provincial characteristics and sectional tendencies in the era preceding the American crisis: v. 1. Great ...
Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.
Fewer students are learning about it in recent decades. LONDON -- Sooanne Berner, 17, studies history at her London secondary school. A bright and articulate young woman, she can discuss the rise of ...
Two Revolutionary War letters were recently brought together at a museum in upstate New York, exactly 250 years after they were written. Fort Ticonderoga in Essex County, near Lake Champlain, ...
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