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

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, ...

She has a profound love for Mount Vernons, plural. One, the home of Washington. The other, the small Ohio city where she was born, raised, worked, and still lives. Both MVs loom large in the life of ...

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

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America was not the only nation at war with Great Britain during at this time. France, Spain and the Netherlands were also at ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill discusses the Declaration of Independence and what inspired the Founders to ...