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

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 ...

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 ...

Sitting on the reference stacks at the Charlie Clark Center for Local History at Arlington Central Library are five thick, blue, nearly 50-year-old bound editions. They are the archives of 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.

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

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

The celebration of the Declaration of Independence's semiquincentennial is a chance to broaden the historical narrative to ...

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 ...

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