Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

The first event this weekend depicts the Battle of Trenton, which took place on Dec. 26, 1776, following George Washington’s ...

Two hours from Roanoke is a small town that's a hit with foodies and art lovers alike, nestled in the mountains of Southwest ...

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what ...

Branchburg native Ronald Rinaldi will participate in his 50th consecutive Christmas Day reenactment of Washington crossing ...

Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte.

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

The Charleston Museum opens a new exhibit in January, with rare artifacts like George Washington’s camp chair and special ...

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain and the beginnings of the American ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...