In a mere two months, soldiers learned how to load and fire a musket quicker and more efficiently, and were introduced to the bayonet, allowing them to engage more successfully when in close combat ...

Succeeding Harris is Smith, 70, the mayor of Nissequogue, whose family traces back to Richard "Bull" Smith, the town's ...

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In response to the killing of 13 American ... can cover in a short column. This is just a bare-bones outline. For those who want to learn more (and I hope you do), you can find a short book ...

A rare copy of the Paul Revere Boston Massacre engraving will be for sale at Virginia's Early American History Auctions.

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The Untold Story of Latinos,” Leguizamo sets the record straight as he delves into U.S. Latino and Latin American history in ...

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As the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia wound down in September 1787, Benjamin Franklin was asked whether, after months of debate over the proposed new Constitution, the new country had a ...

Austin’s “magic” has slipped away thanks to poorly planned development run amok, a new book argues. In “Lost in Austin,” out ...

On October 8, the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to a computer scientist and a physicist for “for foundational discoveries ...