Military victories were essential in helping America win its independence from Britain. Early successes gave the Patriots ...

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

While their images might not be immortalized on dollar bills or their stories ingrained into every high school syllabus, these lesser-known figures nonetheless played critical roles in the shaping of ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.

Explore major battles, declarations, and treaties from 1765–1783. Learn how colonists defeated the British Empire.

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the ...

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

Newly uncovered remnants of an army barracks in Colonial Williamsburg offer new clues into the lives of America's first ...

At the beginning of the American Revolution, colonists did not have an army.They relied on militias not as well trained as the British army and its allies. To defeat them, the colonists decided ...