Dec. 31 marks the 250th anniversary of the death of Richard Montgomery, who was killed in the frontal assault on Quebec City on New Year’s Eve 1775.

A quarter of a millennium ago, “Swamp Fox” Francis Marion took on the British empire with a rag-tag group of part-time ...

History tells us that Washington's winter in Valley Forge was tough — but exactly how tough? Try little to no food for almost ...

Adam Hunt’s three-piece wedding suit rests tucked into acid-free tissue paper in a garment box at the Yates County History ...

A Boston bookseller named Henry Knox led an incredible effort to bring cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to Cambridge and Boston ...

The British seize Philadelphia, but Washington plans to retake the city at the Battle of Germantown. Following the loss of the Battle of the Brandywine, Continental Congress flees Philadelphia and the ...

Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The American Revolution" represents the best of filmmaking and a vital examination of the ...

The Battle of Camden during the Revolutionary War was one of the state’s most brutal. Hundreds of years later, scientists are ...

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – On March 10, 1783, the last naval battle of the American Revolution was fought off Cape Canaveral, as Captains John Barry and John Green tried to deliver a shipload of ...

Bartholomew Carrol was born in 1719 and enlisted in a Revolutionary War Virginia Regiment at age 60, in 1780. He saw battle ...

Westfield Historical commissioner Jennifer Thielen read a proclamation to the City Council at its meeting on Dec. 18 in honor ...

This article was originally published in 2023. It is a story so well known it has become a meme. “Americans: Willing to cross ...