On the steps of the SC Statehouse sits a statue of George Washington, with a broken walking stick. How it broke, however, is ...

In 1775, an unsung hero of the Revolutionary War, Western Pennsylvania's Colonel William Thompson, helped drive back the ...

The second volume of the historian’s account of the American Revolution is told with tremendous verve and detail.

In this moment of constitutional crisis, these books provide a clear picture of the highest court in the land.

Morris County has dozens of important war sites, with the most found in Morristown, including a number of cemetery locations, ...

Thousands of merchants and other businessmen from Massachusetts down to Georgia were quite wary of what belligerence to England might do to their livelihoods – and thus as of early the following year, ...

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

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, July Fourth week is a time for 250th anniversary events, the ...

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died. He was 84.

Twenty years ago this week, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds opened in British cinemas, offering us a big-budget replay ...

Moyers was the “signature figure” of everything wrong with “public” broadcasting. He savaged conservatives and also lined his ...

The Broadway musical “Hamilton” and the historian whose book inspired it will collect the National Constitution Center’s ...