This month marks 250 years since the Battle of Great Cane Brake, the only Revolutionary War battle fought in Greenville ...

At the end of the Revolutionary War, those who remained loyal to the British Crown departed America either to return to Britain or to settle in other colonial territories. Many relocated to Canada, ...

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, ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize ...

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 ...

British troops and loyalists fled Boston by ship for Canada in "disgrace" after nearly a decade of occupation that incited protest, bloodshed and then revolution, on this day in history, March 17, ...

Like a lot of people, we’ve been watching Ken Burns’ PBS series about the American Revolution. As it says, it was in many ...

Did you know that for much of the American Revolutionary War the British were encamped at Sagtikos Manor, which now stands as a museum along West Montauk Highway in West Bay Shore? Or that the first ...

Each year in June, the Redcoats invade Haddonfield, marching up Kings Highway and doing battle with Minutemen bent on separating the Colonies, including New Jersey, from Mother England. The Skirmish, ...

Directed by Ken Burns with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” takes away the trimmings of nostalgia and myth from U.S. history. Instead, it gives audiences a raw, humane and ...