I just finished Ken Burns' documentary series, "The American Revolution," and I have to agree with his assessment that our ...

A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like ...

MR. SABINE has attempted in these volumes to present in a judicial spirit a chapter of our Revolutionary history which usually bears the most of passion in its recital, — believing, as he does, that ...

Historians celebrated the 250th historic anniversary of the Battle of the Cane Brake in Greenville County, SC between ...

Lycoming College welcomes T. Cole Jones, Ph.D., for the 48 th annual Robert H. Ewing Lecture. The event, entitled “The Tory Rising: Insurrection in the Revolutionary South,” will be held on Thursday, ...

“My father told me that his maternal grandmother’s side of the family descended from a British Loyalist family who owned a plantation in Virginia. When the American Revolution started, this family ...

While the Patriots were ultimately victorious in the American Revolution, choosing sides and deciding whether to fight in the war was far from an easy choice for American colonists. The great majority ...

List of maps -- Cast of characters -- Introduction: Spirit of 1783 -- Part I: Refugees. Civil war ; An unsettling peace ; A new world disorder -- Part II: Settlers. The heart of empire ; A world in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Legendary documentary film director Ken Burns this week said South Carolina was one of two violent ...

SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - This month marks 250 years since the Battle of Great Cane Brake, the only Revolutionary War battle fought in Greenville County. The battle took place Dec. 22, 1775, ...