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 ...

A brief ceremony was held Sept. 28 to rededicate the grave of DAR member Margaret Leland Crocker and pay honor to a buried ...

While Lancaster was only the United States capital for a day, it was a moment in time that strongly helped to shape the ...

One of the most prominent structures in a Brunswick city, this fort also has an outsize place when it comes to local history.

Dozens of state and county dignitaries gathered at the entrance of Moraine State Park on Monday, Oct. 7 for a ceremony ...

The Posse Comitatus Act bars the armed forces from serving as civilian police, but loopholes and exceptions make it ripe for ...

Legendary frontiersman Daniel Boone was among the first white explorers in Kentucky in the late 1760s. With his knowledge of ...

Here are tales & true-life spooky and creepy things in and around Delaware that could give the shivers or live rent-free too ...

Finally, in 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a law to found the National Archives, whose responsibilities would come to ...