This lesson explores the British Army before and during the American Revolutionary War. The lesson, which features historian and author Don Hagist speaking at the Ame ...

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 ...

In many wars between Christian nations, soldiers have stopped or scaled back fighting in late December—but this has not always been the case.

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

On Christmas Day in 1776, with the Continental Army at its lowest ebb, George Washington stood on the icy banks of River and ...

An exhibition at the National Museum of the United States Army tells the stories of soldiers in the American Revolution ...

Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th centuries and was integral to the success of the Continental Army during the ...

Are military leaders fired in the middle of a war? Often, yes, but extreme circumstances are required to get to ...

Historians celebrated the 250th historic anniversary of the Battle of the Cane Brake in Greenville County, SC between ...

Kathleen DuVal is a history professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Native Nations: A Millennium in North America, Independence Lost: ...

On the eve of America’s semiquincentennial, the U.S. Military Academy is honoring its forefathers as it faces off against the U.S. Naval Academy.