U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hamilton, located adjacent to the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, was designed by Simon Bernard, a former French military officer who ...

Col. James Burd made an inspection tour of forts on the Pennsylvania frontier during the French and Indian War from Feb. 16 ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish ...

Pennsylvania has a deep, storied history within the origins of the United States, and you can get a unique taste of that in ...

On May 3, 1775, the Massachusetts Committee of Safety gave Benedict Arnold permission to capture Fort Ticonderoga. At the ...

As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

Republican precinct chairs did not take action to remove or censure French after his poll on Jewish and Muslim people ...

Pastel rowhouses along East Bay Street anchor a cityscape where horse-drawn carriages still set the pace. Charleston’s ...

As we start America’s 250th year, WCAX is starting a yearlong commemoration of our nation’s history in a series we’re calling “We the People.” In this installment, our Alek LaShomb explores work being ...

Residents in Memphis' historic French Fort neighborhood are upset about blighted property in the center of their community.