If this fort wasn’t successful, we might not have Kentucky as we know it today. We might not have California or Texas or ...

Outraged by the Intolerable Acts, the Colonies decided to meet in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774, for the first ...

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Georgia's oldest city is welcoming a truckload of historical treasures from the earlier period of U.S. history.

While most Americans grew up hearing that the Declaration of Independence was a revolutionary document giving Americans “the ...

George Washington visited Rhode Island four times, and during one of those trips, he helped shape the United States into the ...

Some of the fiercest battles took place in South Carolina, but its part in the fight for independence is often overlooked.

National Geographic’s Crash Course on the American Revolution is your six-part email series on how the 13 Colonies broke free from Great Britain and established the United States. From the escalating ...

Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

Long before the Declaration of Independence was signed, tensions between the colonies and Great Britain were already boiling ...

It’s where the British perfected their system of enslaved labor, George Washington visited and colonialism’s legacy can still ...