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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I just finished watching the Ken Burns documentary, The American Revolution. 12 hours of drinking history through a fire hose! On the whole, Burns does a good job of presenting ...

GREENWOOD COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Ninety Six National Historic Site in Greenwood County hosted an event to commemorate one of the first land battles in the South during the American Revolution.

Papers read at a conference on the American loyalists held at the Institute of United States Studies, University of London, in November 1975 Contents Marching to a different drummer : the political ...

SALEM — Essex Heritage invites the public to witness history come alive at “The Great Debate Part 2: Patriots & Loyalists” on Tuesday, May 6, from 6-7:30 p.m., at the Salem Armory. Set against the ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new six-part, 12-hour series that is currently streaming on PBS (directed by Ken Burns, Sarah ...

The American Revolution happened in Eastern North Carolina, although some history books seem to forget it. For example, "This Fierce People," an otherwise excellent study by David Pell Crawford on the ...